Field
Robotics
Horizon
σ Sigma · 2029–2035
Lead center
Autonomy & Robotics
Maturity
Developing — prototypes scaling toward deployment
Why it matters
Swarms are robust, scalable, and flexible: they can cover areas, build structures, monitor environments, or deliver goods with no single point of failure.
Where it stands
Lab demonstrations of hundreds of coordinating robots exist; reliable real-world swarms at scale, and their control and safety, are active research.
How ASIZ approaches it
The discovery loop, applied.
Through the Autonomy & Robotics center, ASIZ aims the discovery loop at swarm robotics: 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.