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In this paper, we explore a novel approach of using a simultaneous transmission and reflection reconfigurable intelligent surface (STAR-RIS) to aid a multi-user (MU) multi-input multi-output (MIMO) system for simultaneous wireless information and power transfer (SWIPT) in the presence of statistical channel estimation errors (CEE). Our focus is on minimizing the power required for the SWIPT system through joint beamforming design at both the base station (BS) and STAR-RIS, while ensuring that the minimum rate and minimum energy harvesting requirements are met for information and energy receivers, respectively. Due to the non-convex and NP-hard nature of the problem, we utilize a minimum mean square error (MMSE) approach to simplify the problem and then use an alternating optimization framework to solve the beamforming design problems at the BS and STAR-RIS iteratively using general …