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Morning Edition · Sunday, September 27, 2026Published at 2:30 AM EDT · New York
Pittsburgh Team Runs Meta's Segmentation Models On-Device for a Wheelchair-Mounted Robotic Arm
The $41.5 million project, funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H), keeps perception local on battery-powered hardware, removing the dependence on network connectivity that makes cloud-based inference unsafe for assistive robotics.
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh's Human Engineering Research Laboratories are running Meta's DINOv3 and Segment Anything models directly on the computing hardware carried by a robotic wheelchair and arm, according to Meta's acco…
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