SRI International — Robotics
Spinout lab from Stanford that invented the precursor to the da Vinci surgical robot system. SRI pioneered teleoperation, electroadhesive grippers, and has contributed to DARPA programs for decades.
Notable achievements
Da Vinci surgical robot predecessor (M7 system), electroadhesive grippers, DARPA M3 program, over 300 robotics patents.
Notable work
Recent publications
All papers →Matched by this lab's specialties (keyword overlap + direct affiliation)
Robotics in Plastic Surgery
Vijay Kumar, Sandhya Pandey
Clinical Journal of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery · 2026
Dynamic performance evaluation of an RCM parallel robot with different actuation configurations
Haige Liu, Jiahao Qiu, Bin Zhu +2 more
Robotics and Autonomous Systems · 2026
A hierarchical approach to imitation learning for manipulation tasks requiring time varying forces
Rishabh Shukla, Adithya Santhosh, Shaili Gandhi +2 more
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing · 2026
GeoCFNet: Geometry-Aware Confidence Field Network for Robot-Assisted Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection
Rui Tang, Guankun Wang, Long Bai +5 more
2026
What Are We Actually Benchmarking in Robot Manipulation?
Tianchong Jiang, Xiangshan Tan, Samuel Wheeler +3 more
2026
DLO-Lab: Benchmarking Deformable Linear Object Manipulations with Differentiable Physics
Junyi Cao, Yian Wang, Ziyan Xiong +3 more
2026