We don’t believe in incremental improvement. We invent technologies and develop high-performance solutions that change the world.
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In the news
Will job sites ever become fully autonomous?
SRI’s “robotification kit” works to make job sites safer and more productive
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What is a social robot?
Built In discusses social robots and AI, featuring insights from SRI Robotics’ Alexander Kernbaum
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History of AI in 33 breakthroughs: The first AI-driven robot
Forbes features Shakey, the first AI robot and highlights its “legendary status”
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Elon Musk’s half-baked robot is a clunky first step
Alexander Kernbaum, interim director of SRI Robotics, comments on the practicality of legs for robots
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Quantum computing needs more public-private collaboration says QED-C
QED-C’s new report calls for increased gov-commercial collaboration and offers recommendations for pursuing more public-private partnerships
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Focus areas
An invention isn’t an innovation unless it makes an impact. SRI conducts use-inspired R&D to shorten the time to new capabilities and create first-of-their kind prototypes on the most ambitious technological fronts.
Quantum systems
Leading a national consortium to expand quantum R&D and break the cost and size barrier for practical quantum systems.
Small satellites and payloads
Solutions for the extreme conditions of space and marine environments. Includes payload and instruments, systems engineering and flight mission integration.
Robotics systems
Solutions including dexterous telemanipulation, healthcare automation, service robots and micro-scale assembly platforms. Expertise in AI, algorithm development, sensors and vision.
Diagnostics and medical devices
Remote sensing systems including biological sensor development, microfluidic devices, optical remote sensing, trace gas sensing, sensor modeling and phenomenology.
National security
Addressing national security challenges through expertise in optics, materials, sensors and solid-state devices. Includes cyberspace operations, chemical sensing and secure applied microsystems.
Core competencies
Multi-spectral sensing
From DC to beyond daylight
Extend perception – detect, process and recognize signals across multiple domains
Expert modeling and simulation
From ocean currents to space weather
Accelerate design – use proprietary and commercial codes to predict, validate and optimize performance across diverse applications
Collaborative automation
From robots to cognitive receivers
Develop smart collaborative systems – software-defined controls adapt to the
Advanced engineering solutions
From medical devices to spacecraft
Build disruptive systems and machines – create unique materials, structures, circuits and software
“The government sponsors a lot of research but leaves intellectual property with us. It is SRI’s mandate, our requirement to not only make an impact on the people we’re working for, but also on the economy and the well-being of society.“
Scott Seaton
President, Advanced Technology and Systems Division
Spin-offs
Our teams excel at taking breakthrough technologies from discovery all the way through to the end user. Following is just a sample of the spin-off companies that got their start in our labs: Visit SRI Ventures
