Humanoid robots
Humanoid robots are machines built in the general shape of a human body — legs, arms, hands, and sensors — so they can operate in spaces and with tools designed for people, pairing advanced actuators with AI for perception, balance, and manipulation.
A general-purpose body that can do what humans do physically would transform labor across warehouses, homes, construction, and hazardous work — and give AI hands to run experiments in the real world.
Recent humanoids walk, balance, and perform simple tasks impressively, but dexterous manipulation, reliability, battery life, and cost keep them from broad deployment.
The discovery loop, applied.
Through the Autonomy & Robotics center, ASIZ aims the discovery loop at humanoid 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.