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Accelerating discovery in natural science laboratories with AI and robotics: Perspectives and challenges

Cooper, Andrew I.
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Courtney, Patrick
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Darvish, Kourosh
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Eckhoff, Moritz
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Fakhruldeen, Hatem
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Gabrielli, Andrea
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Garg, Animesh
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Haddadin, Sami
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Harada, Kanako
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Hein, Jason
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Cooper, Andrew I.
Courtney, Patrick
Darvish, Kourosh
Eckhoff, Moritz
Fakhruldeen, Hatem
Gabrielli, Andrea
Garg, Animesh
Haddadin, Sami
Harada, Kanako
Hein, Jason
Hubner, Maria
Knobbe, Dennis
Pizzuto, Gabriella
Shkurti, Florian
Shrestha, Ruja
Thurow, Kerstin
Vescovi, Rafael
Vogel-Heuser, Birgit
Wolf, Adam
Yoshikawa, Naruki
Zeng, Yan
Zhou, Zhengxue
Zwirnmann, Henning
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Robotics
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2025
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English
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Science laboratory automation enables accelerated discovery in life sciences and materials. However, it requires interdisciplinary collaboration to address challenges such as robust and flexible autonomy, reproducibility, throughput, standardization, the role of human scientists, and ethics. This article highlights these issues, reflecting perspectives from leading experts in laboratory automation across different disciplines of the natural sciences.
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A. I. Cooper et al., “Accelerating discovery in natural science laboratories with AI and robotics: Perspectives and challenges,” Sci Robot, vol. 10, no. 106, p. 7932, Sep. 2025, doi: 10.1126/SCIROBOTICS.ADV7932
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Science Robotics
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American Association for the Advancement of Science
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10.1126/scirobotics.adv7932
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https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/scirobotics.adv7932
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