North Carolina State University has been awarded a four-year, $20 million award from the National Science Foundation to leverage advances in artificial intelligence, robotics and autonomous labs to accelerate the pace of scientific discovery in chemistry and materials science.
The research initiative, dubbed Self-driving Platforms for Expedited Experimental co-Design in solution phase chemistry and materials science (SPEED), is part of the NSF Directorate of Technology, Innovation and Partnership’s Programmable Cloud Laboratories (PCL Test Bed) program. The SPEED laboratory will be based at NC State and includes two university collaborators. See the full article here.