🔬 Nonprofit#18 Menlo Park, CA, USA· Est. 1946
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.
surgical roboticsmilitary robotsmanipulationelectroadhesionsoft actuators
Notable achievements
Da Vinci surgical robot predecessor (M7 system), electroadhesive grippers, DARPA M3 program, over 300 robotics patents.
Notable work
M7 surgical robotElectroadhesive grippers