# 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.

- Published: 2026-10-25T06:22:55.342Z
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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/)

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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