Field
Robotics
Horizon
ι Iota · 2035–2042
Lead center
Autonomy & Robotics
Maturity
Research frontier — early-stage, high-uncertainty
Why it matters
Such robots could repair themselves, morph to fit any job, and build structures in inaccessible places like disaster zones and space.
Where it stands
Lab systems of dozens of modules demonstrate reconfiguration; robustness, speed, and scale are research challenges.
How ASIZ approaches it
The discovery loop, applied.
Through the Autonomy & Robotics center, ASIZ aims the discovery loop at self-reconfiguring 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.