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Morning Edition · Tuesday, September 15, 2026Published at 2:27 AM EDT · New York
Meta's open vision models are driving a robotic wheelchair at the University of Pittsburgh
The Human Engineering Research Laboratories won up to $41.5 million from the federal health research agency for a platform that uses Segment Anything and DINO for real-time perception.
The University of Pittsburgh's Human Engineering Research Laboratories are building the Robotic Assistive Mobility and Manipulation Platform, funded by an award of up to $41.5 million from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health, a…
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Open-Vocabulary, Promptable Vision Foundation Models
Vision foundation models shift to text-promptable, open-vocabulary detection, segmentation, and real-time tracking of arbitrary concepts, generalizing perception beyond fixed label sets across images and video and pushing open perception models toward production use.
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