Morning Edition · Tuesday, November 10, 2026Published at 1:14 AM EST · New York

Meta's SAM 3 and DINOv3 run inside Energy Department beamline analysis and a robotic wheelchair project

Meta says Berkeley Lab cut a grapevine micro-computed tomography segmentation task from about a month of expert work to about 15 minutes, and a University of Pittsburgh team is adapting the same models to run on the wheelchair itself.

Meta is featuring two deployments of its open-weight vision models outside its own products. In the first, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory uses Segment Anything Model 3 (SAM 3) and DINOv3 as the core of the segmentation pipeline for S…