Stanford University Timeline

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• 2026-06-24 - Research Publication - Play2Perfect: What Matters in Dexterous Play Pretraining for Precise Assembly? - Precise assembly is contact-rich and sparse-reward, making demonstrations costly and reinforcement learning from scratch difficult. Play2Perfect first trains a dexterous hand on diverse free-space object play, then fine-tunes the reusable grasping… - source: arxiv.org
• 2026-06-12 - Research Publication - Universal Manipulation Exoskeleton: Learning Compliant Whole-body Policies with Real-time Torque Feedback - Introduces a low-cost upper-limb exoskeleton that provides real-time haptic torque feedback while recording whole-arm configuration and joint torque signals. Retargets to multiple robot arms including OpenArm, Franka, and X-ARM for bimanual, mobile, and… - source: arxiv.org
• 2026-06-11 - Research Publication - Improving Robotic Generalist Policies via Flow Reversal Steering - Uses flow reversal to refine coarse reference actions from humans or VLMs into precise in-distribution robot actions. Supports zero-shot control, fast distillation into smaller policies, and bootstrapped RL improvement. Project page reports results on LIBERO… - source: arxiv.org
• 2026-06-04 - Research Publication - Robots Need More than VLA and World Models - Argues that robot policy scaling is bottlenecked by converting unstructured data into grounded supervision. Frames four missing interfaces: behavior autolabelling, embodiment retargeting, physics-grounded 3D world modeling, and reward inference.… - source: arxiv.org
• 2026-05-25 - Research Publication - EXPO-FT: Sample-Efficient Reinforcement Learning Finetuning for Vision-Language-Action Models - Introduces RL finetuning for pretrained VLA policies using online interaction, Q-guided sampling, residual edit policies, and human corrections. Reports 30/30 success across evaluated real-robot manipulation tasks with about 19 minutes of online robot data… - source: pd-perry.github.io
• 2025-01-01 - Partnership - Mirsee Robotics highlights MRI-safe surgical robot collaboration with Stanford University - Mirsee describes collaboration with Stanford researchers on MRI-safe surgical robots built around patented hybrid hydrostatic actuator technology. The systems are described as plastic-built robots for high magnetic and electrical-noise environments with… - source: mirsee.com
• 2024-04-23 - Partnership - Multiply Labs plans robotic cell-therapy collaboration with Stanford LCGM - Cell-therapy organizations will be able to compare manual processes with automated versions side by side. The robots are designed to use existing GMP instruments, consumables and reagents without major process changes. A Cytotherapy study provides the… - source: biospace.com