Morning Edition · Sunday, October 11, 2026Published at 2:16 AM EDT · New York
The up to $41.5 million RAMMP project pairs a robotic arm with open vision models optimized to run on battery power, without a cloud connection.

The University of Pittsburgh's Human Engineering Research Laboratories (HERL) leads the Robotic Assistive Mobility and Manipulation Platform (RAMMP). The project has up to $41.5 million from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health…
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