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IRIS Lab (Intelligence through Robotic Interaction at Scale)
United States
As of mid-2026, Stanford's official faculty profile still lists Chelsea Finn as an active Assistant Professor with no documented leave, alongside her role as Physical Intelligence co-founder.
AffiliationStanford University
CountryUS
TypeAcademic
Research areasimitation learning, meta-learning, VLA, human-robot data collection
Flagship contributionCreated Mobile ALOHA, a low-cost mobile bimanual teleoperation system letting a robot learn complex household tasks such as cooking and tidying from around 50 demonstrations.
Key peopleChelsea Finn (Assistant Professor, Stanford, William George and Ida Mary Hoover Faculty Fellow, cofondatrice de Physical Intelligence), Karl Pertsch (postdoc), Moo Jin Kim (doctorant, co-auteur OpenVLA)
Open outputsCo-développement d'OpenVLA (modèle VLA 7B, poids ouverts) et d'Octo (politique généraliste open source, avec Berkeley et CMU) ; code Mobile ALOHA et RoboCrowd publiés en open source.
CityStanford (Californie)
Sources : Stanford Profiles (2026-07)IRIS Lab (2026-07)Stanford Report (2024-04)
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