Stanford Robotics Lab / Stanford AI Lab (SAIL)
Pioneer of robotic surgery and mobile manipulation, with deep ties to Silicon Valley. Stanford robotics alumni have founded companies including Intuitive Surgical, Willow Garage, and many others.
Notable achievements
PUMA robot arm (1970s), da Vinci surgical robot roots, DARPA Grand Challenge winner Stanley, Google self-driving car origins, Willow Garage (ROS).
Notable work
Recent publications
All papers →Matched by this lab's specialties (keyword overlap + direct affiliation)
Beyond rigid automation: A review of vision-language-action models for adaptive human–robot disassembly
Baki Ul Islam, Joao Paulo Jacomini Prioli, Jose Carlos Hernandez Azucena
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing · 2027
Learning passive variable impedance skills for contact-rich tasks via conservative extended dynamical systems
Pingyun Nie, Jiexin Zhang, Tianxiang Jiang +4 more
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing · 2027
Robotics in Plastic Surgery
Vijay Kumar, Sandhya Pandey
Clinical Journal of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery · 2026
PAEAR: Point Clouds Area Exploration and Active Recognition method driven by reinforcement learning for robotic welding
Yong Tao, Donghua Tan, Fan Ren +6 more
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing · 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
Copilot: A framework for integrating LLM and BMI to enhance human–robot interaction
Siyu Liu, Mengzhen Liu, Zhiyuan Ming +6 more
Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing · 2026