Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

Stanford University's AI lab, founded in 1963, and a major center for robot learning research.

SAIL is the artificial intelligence lab in Stanford University's computer science department, founded in 1963 by John McCarthy, who coined the term “artificial intelligence.” Its current director is Chris Manning, a natural-language-processing researcher, and past and present members include Fei-Fei Li and Andrew Ng. Its research spans machine learning, computer vision, natural language processing, and robotics. Several widely cited results in embodied AI have come out of SAIL-affiliated groups, including the low-cost mobile bimanual platform Mobile ALOHA, the open-source vision-language-action model OpenVLA (developed with Berkeley, Toyota Research Institute, and others), VoxPoser, which uses a large language model to generate 3D value maps, and the household benchmark BEHAVIOR-1K.

ExampleMobile ALOHA (2024), released by a Stanford team, used a mobile bimanual platform costing about $32,000 to learn household chores like stir-frying shrimp and pushing in chairs from just a few dozen demonstrations.

Also called

Stanford AI Lab, SAIL

Related

Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research · Mobile ALOHA · OpenVLA · VoxPoser · BEHAVIOR-1K (BEHAVIOR Challenge) · Toyota Research Institute

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As of

2026-09