The Acceleration Consortium cements partnership with global technology leader Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany

Meet Anatole von Lilienfeld, the inaugural Clark Chair in advanced materials discovery

Almost 10 questions with Acceleration Consortium (AC) member Anatole von Lilienfeld

Radical Reads: Solving Humanity’s Biggest Challenges with AI for Materials Discovery

If we hope to meaningfully tackle climate change and reverse the systemic resource pressures placed on the planet, we need to develop new materials faster and more efficiently.

Using an automated chemistry lab to find the origin of life

U.K. chemist Lee Cronin is building a ‘chemputer’ in his quest to create the smartest artificial brain.

Anyone can download an autonomous ‘research robot’ from the Air Force Research Laboratory

Using the artificial intelligence and autonomy algorithms built into ARES OS, researchers can transform experiments into autonomous “research robots” capable of directing and conducting their own research.

Fast forward

Tonio Buonassisi’s Photo­voltaics Lab is speeding up the development of new solar cell materials using machine learning, robots, and good old-fashioned teamwork.

Robotic scientists will 'speed up discovery'

Scientists at the University of Liverpool have unveiled a robotic colleague that has been working non-stop in their lab throughout lockdown.

Alán Aspuru-Guzik has seen the lab of the future, and it’s very, very fast

By bringing artificial intelligence into chemistry, he aims to vastly shrink the time it takes to develop new drugs – and almost everything else

Let the laboratory do its own work

Self-driving laboratories can use robotics and AI to automate some routine parts of experiments. What impact could that have?

3 technologies that could create trillion-dollar markets over the next decade

Go back to the typical household in 1950, and you would see much that you would recognize: washing machines, vacuum cleaners, cars, TVs.