Field
Agriculture
Horizon
σ Sigma · 2029–2035
Lead center
Living Systems
Maturity
Developing — prototypes scaling toward deployment
Why it matters
They let farmers detect stress, disease, and water needs early and apply inputs precisely, cutting chemical use and boosting yields — central to sustainable, data-driven agriculture.
Where it stands
Mapping drones are widely used; autonomous spraying and fully integrated farm-management systems are scaling now.
How ASIZ approaches it
The discovery loop, applied.
Through the Living Systems center, ASIZ aims the discovery loop at agricultural drone: frontier models survey the literature and simulate the possibilities, rank the experiments most likely to resolve the open questions, and partner labs run the decisive ones — with results shared openly.