The Stanford University RISE Project is a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) sponsored pursuit affiliated with the Biomimetics Dexterous Manipulation Laboratory (BDML) headed by Professor Mark Cutkosky. General information about the RiSE project and our role. An archive of documents on Docushare. Publication and media notes. A compendium of working notes and links for the consortium. RiSE consortium website links.  Related projects. Who we are and where to find us.