Autonomous Labs

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Kulik: Autonomous labs struggle with experiments that are easy for humans
“There are some types of experiments that, at least as of the last conference I went to on this, are really hard for autonomous high throughput experimentation, but are really easy for a human and vice versa.”
Heather Kulik Mar 24, 2026 ▶ 22:32 🔬There Is No AlphaFold for Materials — AI for Materials Discovery with Heather Kulik
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Hsu: AI reasoning and robot learning will accelerate autonomous scientific labs
“My big idea is that advances in AI reasoning capabilities and in robot learning will help accelerate scientific progress by moving us closer towards autonomous labs.”
Oliver Hsu Dec 31, 2025 ▶ 0:30 AI in 2026: 3 Predictions For What’s To Come (a16z Big Ideas)
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Hsu: Autonomous labs will first penetrate mature markets like life sciences
“So I think there are certain categories of science where there is just a much more mature demand side market for the outputs of research. And examples include, of course, life sciences and pharma the chemicals industry facets of the material science industry. …”
Oliver Hsu Dec 31, 2025 ▶ 4:03 AI in 2026: 3 Predictions For What’s To Come (a16z Big Ideas)

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