Affiliates

The Stanford Robotics Center program (SRC) encourages a high level of engagement from industry

Corporate members are an integral part of SRC. Relationships between companies, faculty, and graduate students provide everyone with valuable insights on opportunities, problems, and solutions. Corporations are the most important path to commercialization at scale and achieving societal impact. The SRC Affiliate Program works closely with diverse industries, where ever robotics can make a significant impact. Corporate membership fees provide unrestricted support for SRC research and other activities where the emphasis is on two-way communication between researchers and companies.

Member Benefits

The Center is a unique opportunity for corporate involvement at the leading edge of robotics. Benefits include:

  • Scientific advisory board seat

  • Input on flagship project direction

  • Faculty liaison with regular touch points

  • Visiting scholar exchanges

  • Facilities access

  • Training programs

  • Members-only networking events with students

  • Inclusion in retreats, seminars

  • Facilitated pathway to engage in sponsored research projects, which may include access to SRC facilities

  • Recognition as founding members on website

All of the site presentations and all information, data and results arising from such visitation interactions will be shared with all members and the public. Additional information can be found in the Research Policy Handbook. The SRC will use and develop open-source software, and it is the intention of SRC that any software will be released under an open source model.

Contribution

Founding membership is $333,000 per year. These contributions are used to fund research projects, build up SRC core robotics capabilities, and other programs and activities. Companies may provide additional funding above the membership fee to support an area of on-going research with faculty participating within the program. All research results arising from the use of the additional funding will be shared with all program members and the general public. An Affiliate Program member may request the additional funding be used to support a particular area of program research identified on the program’s website, or the program research of a named faculty member, as long as the faculty is identified on the program website as participating in the Affiliate Program.

Affiliate Program members may provide additional funding. All research results arising from the use of the additional funding will be shared with all program members and the general public. Affiliate Program members may request the additional funding be used to support a particular area of program research identified on the program’s website, or the program research of a named faculty member, as long as the faculty is identified on the program website as participating in the Affiliate Program. In any instance, the director of the Affiliate Program will ultimately determine how the additional funding will be used in the program’s research.

Industrial affiliates programs are subject to Stanford University policies for industry affiliates programs. Please see the Stanford University Policies Affecting Industrial Affiliates Program Membership.

Members

Founding members will be listed here.