AI-Powered Self-Driving Lab Radically Speeds Up Chemical Research
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Researchers developed an "autonomous self-driving lab" called Fast-Cat that uses AI to quickly analyze catalytic reactions for chemical manufacturing.
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Fast-Cat can provide more info on catalytic reactions in 5 days than was previously possible in 6 months.
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The system is completely autonomous, running experiments and analyzing results without human intervention to determine how variables affect outcomes.
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Fast-Cat's AI continually evolves and learns from past experiments to inform future tests.
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In proof-of-concept testing, Fast-Cat more than doubled the array of possible selectivity and yield endpoints for 6 ligands in just 5 days.