# 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.

- Published: 2026-09-20T06:20:15.045Z
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- Sources: [Meta AI](https://ai.meta.com/blog/assistive-robotics-university-of-pittsburgh-sam-dino/), [University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine](https://www.medschool.pitt.edu/news/university-pittsburgh-lead-team-415m-project-create-robotic-wheelchair)

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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