Autonomous Discovery Projects

Argonne is exploring ways to automate the laboratory and make science more efficient by leveraging artificial intelligence and robotics.

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Building a mobile robotic scientist to speed materials discovery

An important component of self-driving laboratories, dexterous, free-roaming robots — basically, robotic scientists – will free up researchers for more complex tasks.

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Improving energy storage using autonomous experiments

Argonne developed a theoretical and AI framework to identify molecules with the desired energy storage properties from a large chemical space.

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Designing the perfect peptide

The ultimate goal of the project is to enable design of peptides with predictable functions. The capabilities we develop will be critical in advancing scientific discoveries in biology and other fields.

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Mining for new materials using continuous flow chemistry

An autonomous laboratory based on continuous flow chemistry will improve productivity and enable design, development, synthesis, and scaleup of advanced materials.

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Reducing electronics waste using autonomous discovery

Argonne is working to develop an autonomous method to identify the best stressor-specific, low-energy deconstruction pathways for conjugated polymers.

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Automating chemical discovery with the self-driving chemist

Argonne’s self-driving chemist platform executes an autonomous method for chemical discovery to improve chemical reactions and create new materials.

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Active Projects

Building a mobile robotic scientist to speed materials discovery

Improving energy storage using autonomous experiments

Designing the perfect peptide

Mining for new materials using continuous flow chemistry

Reducing electronics waste using autonomous discovery

Automating chemical discovery with the self-driving chemist