rammp-0ffe376d·1 events·first seen Aliases: RAMMP
The University of Pittsburgh's Human Engineering Research Laboratories (HERL), with up to $41.5M in ARPA-H funding, is building RAMMP, a robotic assistive mobility and manipulation platform for wheelchair users that integrates Meta's open-source vision models SAM and DINOv3. The project deploys these models on edge hardware for real-time object detection, navigation assistance, and natural language interaction, addressing engineering constraints like battery life, heat, and limited compute. This is a concrete production deployment case demonstrating open-weights vision models running on resource-constrained robotics hardware in a safety-critical assistive context.