# Meta's Open Perception Models Move Into National-Lab Experiments and Assistive Robots

A Berkeley Lab pipeline fine-tuned Segment Anything and DINO on beamline imaging and returns a labeled three-dimensional volume in about 15 minutes while the experiment is still running.

- Published: 2026-09-16T06:18:31.385Z
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has put Meta's open vision models inside a working experimental pipeline. In the SYNAPS-I project, part of the United States Department of Energy's Genesis Mission, the team fine-tuned Segment Anything…

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