Field
Transport
Horizon
α Alpha · 2026–2029
Lead center
Autonomy & Robotics
Maturity
Emerging — early real-world deployment
Why it matters
Autonomous driving promises far fewer crashes, new mobility for those who can't drive, and radically cheaper transport and logistics — and is a proving ground for real-world AI safety.
Where it stands
Robotaxis operate commercially in limited areas, but rare events, bad weather, unstructured roads, regulation, and public trust remain open at scale.
How ASIZ approaches it
The discovery loop, applied.
Through the Autonomy & Robotics center, ASIZ aims the discovery loop at self-driving car: 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.