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Morning Edition · Sunday, October 25, 2026Published at 2:22 AM EDT · New York
Berkeley Lab and the University of Pittsburgh put Meta's SAM 3 and DINOv3 into beamline analysis and assistive robotics
The national-lab pipeline cuts segmentation of a reconstructed 3D volume from roughly a month of expert work per time step to about 15 minutes, while Pittsburgh runs the models on a battery-powered wheelchair.
Meta says its open vision models now run the first group of projects in the Department of Energy's Genesis Mission (Meta). The main project is the SYnergistic Neutron And Photon Science – Intelligence initiative (SYNAPS-I), led by Lawrence…
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Open-Weight Vision Models Move Into National Lab Beamlines and Assistive Robotics
Fine-tunable open-weight perception models keep displacing expert annotation and custom vision stacks in government science and assistive robotics, where data must stay on the operator's own infrastructure.
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