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Morning Edition · Sunday, September 20, 2026Published at 2:20 AM EDT · New York
Pittsburgh's $41.5 Million Robotic Wheelchair Program Runs Meta's Vision Models Directly On the Device
The RAMMP platform pairs a seven-degree-of-freedom arm with DINOv3 and SAM running locally, so perception does not depend on a network connection.
The Human Engineering Research Laboratories at the University of Pittsburgh received up to $41.5 million from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health to build the Robotic Assistive Mobility and Manipulation Platform, or RAMMP, aime…
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