Stephen James
Assistant Professor
Leads the SWIRL lab on scalable whole-body robot learning, using reinforcement and imitation learning; also founder of Neuracore.
Stephen James's lab at Imperial works on manipulation & robot learning. 13 papers since 2023, 11 at top venues, mostly CoRL and ICML. 4 PhD students and 1 master's student. 7 alumni. Applications close .
At a glance
- papers, 2023–2026
- 3/ year
- at T1 venues
- 85%
- PhD students
- 4
- MS students
- 1
- alumni listed
- 7
Papers by yearfrom the lab homepage, 2023–2026
- 2 papers2026 · T1 1 · collecting
- 0 papers2025 · T1 0
- 7 papers2024 · T1 6
- 4 papers2023 · T1 4
T1 venuesOtherVenues: CoRL, ICML, RA-L, CVPR, ICRA
Research focuspaper titles that use each topic's words
- Manipulation & robot learning7 papers
- whole-body0 papers
- imitation learning0 papers
- imitation0 papers
- scalable0 papers
Paper list
From the lab homepage.
20262 papers
- Science Robotics (T1)A retrieval-augmented framework enabling VLM spatial awareness for object-centric robot manipulation
- RA-LZeroBot: Learning From Scratch in Minutes With Generative Real2Sim
20247 papers
- CoRL (T1)BiGym: A Demo-Driven Mobile Bi-Manual Manipulation Benchmark
- CoRL (T1)Continuous Control with Coarse-to-fine Reinforcement Learning
- CoRL (T1)Generative Image as Action Models
- CVPR (T1)Hierarchical Diffusion Policy for Kinematics-Aware Multi-Task Robotic Manipulation
- RA-LRedundancy-aware Action Spaces for Robot Learning
- RSS (T1)Render and Diffuse: Aligning Image and Action Spaces for Diffusion-based Behaviour Cloning
- NeurIPS (T1)Vision Foundation Model Enables Generalizable Object Pose Estimation
20234 papers
- CoRL (T1)Language-conditioned path planning
- ICML (T1)Multi-view masked world models for visual robotic manipulation
- ICRA (T1)Stereopose: Category-level 6d transparent object pose estimation from stereo images via back-view nocs
- ICML (T1)Temporally consistent transformers for video generation
Where alumni went7 listed
Apply to Imperial2027 (Apr/Oct)
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