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Morning Edition · Friday, September 25, 2026Published at 9:31 AM EDT · New York
Meta's Open Perception Models Turn Up in Assistive Robotics and National-Lab Science
The University of Pittsburgh is using Segment Anything and DINO for assistive manipulation, while Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory applies the same models to Genesis Mission projects.
Meta published two deployment accounts of its open perception models on the same day. One describes the University of Pittsburgh using Segment Anything and DINO in assistive robotics, where the central challenge is recognizing and grasping…
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Over the coming months, labs ship general-purpose robotics model suites that bridge vision-language understanding to physical navigation and manipulation, pushing foundation models into embodied action.
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