Multi-robot Systems Lab

Creating robots with perceptual, physical, and social intelligence.

MSL Group Photo

The Multi-robot Systems Lab at Stanford University works to advance the science of collaborative autonomy for drones, manipulators, humanoids, and other autonomous robots. Our research rests on three pillars: (i) unlocking greater volumes, quality, and diversity of data for robot learning, (ii) developing new architectures and training methodologies to enhance generality, steerability, and social awareness of robot policies, and (iii) developing statistical and analytical tools for interpreting robot policies, predicting and recovering from failures, and measuring performance.

Recent News

2026
Conferences and Journals

2 papers accepted to ICRA. See you in Vienna!

SINGER Phys2Real

2 papers accepted to ICLR. See you in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil!

SARM KERN MoE

2 papers accepted to RAL. See you in Pittsburgh!

VISTA SketchPlan

1 paper accepted to CVPR. See you in Denver!

COVER

1 paper accepted to Blog.

Rethinking the Primitives

2025
Conferences and Journals

2 papers accepted to RAL.

GRaD-Nav++ HAMMER

2 papers accepted to ICRA. See you in Atlanta!

SAFER-Splat Conformal Flight Testing

1 paper accepted to TRO.

Splat-Nav

1 paper accepted to NeurIPS. See you in San Diego!

SAS

1 paper accepted to CoRL. See you in Seoul!

ARCH

July
Congratulations to Dr. Keiko Nagami for successfully defending her PhD thesis!
2024
Conferences and Journals

1 paper accepted to IROS. See you in Abu Dhabi!

Touch-GS

November
Congratulations to Dr. Javier Yu for successfully defending his PhD thesis!
August

Congratulations to Dr. Joe Vincent for successfully defending his PhD thesis!

May

Congratulations to Dr. Patrick Washington for successfully defending his PhD thesis!

2023
September

Congratulations to Dr. Trevor Halsted for successfully defending his PhD thesis!

Contact

Durand Building, 496 Lomita Mall, Stanford, CA 94305
Room 250
Office Space: Room 028

Prospective Lab Members

We may take on new PhD students each year. If you are a prospective PhD student, we ask that you do not contact us directly with regard to PhD admissions until after you are admitted, as we will not be able to reply to emails from individual applicants.

If you are a Stanford undergraduate, masters, or co-term interested in research opportunities, please complete this form and we'll reach out to you if there is a good fit.

If you are interested in a post-doc position, please see Prospective Postdoctoral Students.

If you are not a Stanford student and interested in visiting researcher positions, please email schwager@stanford.edu.

For newly accepted students in the lab, please follow the onboarding process here.