# Pittsburgh's assistive robot and Berkeley Lab's beamlines standardize on Meta's open-weight SAM and DINO vision models

The University of Pittsburgh project runs on battery-powered hardware under a federal award of up to $41.5 million, and Berkeley Lab cut one imaging analysis from about a month to about 15 minutes.

- Published: 2026-10-29T06:14:22.974Z
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- Sources: [Meta AI (Pittsburgh)](https://ai.meta.com/blog/assistive-robotics-university-of-pittsburgh-sam-dino/), [Meta AI (Genesis Mission)](https://ai.meta.com/blog/genesis-mission-lawrence-berkeley-national-laboratory-segment-anything-dino/), [Nerova](https://nerova.ai/news/meta-ai-assistive-robotics-rammp)

Meta described how the University of Pittsburgh's Human Engineering Research Laboratories uses its open-weight vision models in a robotic assistive mobility and manipulation platform (RAMMP). RAMMP combines a powered mobility base, a roboti…

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