Field
Robotics
Horizon
α Alpha · 2026–2029
Lead center
Autonomy & Robotics
Maturity
Emerging — early real-world deployment
Why it matters
They bring automation to small businesses and flexible production lines, augmenting rather than replacing workers, and are a stepping stone to more capable embodied systems.
Where it stands
Cobots are commercially mature for repetitive tasks; richer perception and dexterity to handle variation are the frontier.
How ASIZ approaches it
The discovery loop, applied.
Through the Autonomy & Robotics center, ASIZ aims the discovery loop at collaborative robots: 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.