National Science Foundation funds nationwide network self-driving research laboratories at US universities

Good news! From self driving cars to self driving science labs!

The US National Science Foundation (NSF) has launched a new $380 million (£285 million) effort to establish a nationwide network of automated laboratories enabled by artificial intelligence (AI), and as part of this initiative North Carolina State University (NCSU) will lead a project that aims to build ‘self-driving’ chemistry labs.

Dubbed the self-driving platforms for experimental co-design in chemistry and materials science

NSF funds $380m AI lab network including self-driving chemistry platform at NC State University | Chemistry World

NSF announces $400M investment in new national network of AI-programmable cloud laboratories in alignment with the U.S. government's Genesis Mission (original news release) "Awardees will test, scale and demonstrate new methods and tools that advance automated science and engineering for discovery and translation"