# Berkeley Lab's SYNAPS-I pipeline uses Meta's SAM 3 and DINOv3 to cut beamline image analysis from about a month to 15 minutes

The same open-weight vision models run on the device in a Pittsburgh-led robotic wheelchair project that the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) funds with up to $41.5 million.

- Published: 2026-10-20T06:12:48.347Z
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- Sources: [Meta AI](https://ai.meta.com/blog/genesis-mission-lawrence-berkeley-national-laboratory-segment-anything-dino/), [Meta AI](https://ai.meta.com/blog/assistive-robotics-university-of-pittsburgh-sam-dino/)

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory leads SYNAPS-I (SYnergistic Neutron And Photon Science, Intelligence), a project within the Department of Energy's Genesis Mission. Its image-segmentation pipeline is built on two Meta open-weight model…

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