# 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.

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- Tracking since: 2026-10-29T00:00:00.000Z
- Last updated: 2026-10-29T06:40:54.498Z
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