Can AI Conduct Its Own Experiments? Labmate Online

The AI revolution is quickly gaining momentum, with robots being deployed everywhere from offshore oil rigs to marine research centres. Now, a laboratory at Pittsburgh's Carnegie Mellon University is championing artificial intelligence by gradually outsourcing chemical work to robots. Armed with skill, precision and steadfast diligence, the robots lift bottles filled with chemical reagents, transport them to test tube banks and dispense an exact number of drops. The goal is to pinpoint the optimum chemical makeup for high-capacity electric car batteries, a project that's fronted by the Toyota Research Institute. While the robots are currently used only as manpower, the team assert that they could eventually devise the experiments.