# Meta — Canadian Start-up smartARM Uses AI to Create Intuitive Bionic Prosthetics

- Company: Meta (meta.com)
- Announced: 2026-09-16T16:00:19+00:00
- Category: not stated
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: no
- Group: routine
- Source: https://about.fb.com/news/2026/09/canadian-start-up-smartarm-uses-ai-to-create-intuitive-bionic-prosthetics/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/11424-canadian-start-up-smartarm-uses-ai-to-create-intuitive-bionic-prosthetics
- Subject: Meta AI
- Open weights: yes
- Models affected: DINOv2

Meta highlighted smartARM, a Toronto-based startup developing a vision-first bionic arm prototype that uses Meta's open-source vision model DINOv2 to recognize everyday objects and automatically select grips, with Meta AI Glasses as an optional add-on. The arm can adapt to objects trained on just a few photos, and long-time user Shaquem Griffin said scalability and accessibility matter most to him.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://about.fb.com/news/2026/09/canadian-start-up-smartarm-uses-ai-to-create-intuitive-bionic-prosthetics/:

> The team is using DINOv2, Meta’s open-source vision model, to help it recognize everyday objects from just a few reference photos, supporting smartARM’s grip-selection software.

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