A mobile robotic chemist.

Nature. 2020 Jul;583(7815):237-241. doi:10.1038/s41586-020-2442-2

Burger B, Maffettone PM, Gusev VV, Aitchison CM, Bai Y, Wang X, Li X, Alston BM, Li B, Clowes R, Rankin N, Harris B, Sprick RS, Cooper AI.

“The robot uses laser scanning and touch feedback, rather than a vision system. It can therefore operate in complete darkness, if needed.“ “The robot operated autonomously over eight days, performing 688 experiments within a ten-variable experimental space, driven by a batched Bayesian search algorithm.”