{"id":227440,"date":"2025-12-19T01:37:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T07:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/ai-advisor-helps-self-driving-labs-share-control-in-creation-of-next-generation-materials"},"modified":"2025-12-19T01:37:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T07:37:00","slug":"ai-advisor-helps-self-driving-labs-share-control-in-creation-of-next-generation-materials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/ai-advisor-helps-self-driving-labs-share-control-in-creation-of-next-generation-materials","title":{"rendered":"\u2018AI advisor\u2019 helps self-driving labs share control in creation of next-generation materials"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-advisor-helps-self-driving-labs-share-control-in-creation-of-next-generation-materials.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSelf-driving\u201d or \u201cautonomous\u201d labs are an emerging technology in which artificial intelligence guides the discovery process, helping design experiments or perfecting decision strategies.<\/p>\n<p>While these labs have generated heated debate about whether humans or machines should lead scientific research, a new paper from Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering (UChicago PME) has proposed a novel answer: Both.<\/p>\n<p>In the paper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s44286-025-00318-3\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Chemical Engineering<\/i>, the team led by UChicago PME Asst. Prof. Jie Xu, who has a joint appointment at Argonne, outlined an \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-02-ai-powered-labs-faster-safer.html?utm_source=embeddings&utm_medium=related&utm_campaign=internal\" rel=\"related\">AI advisor<\/a>\u201d model that helps humans and machines share the driver\u2019s seat in self-driving labs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSelf-driving\u201d or \u201cautonomous\u201d labs are an emerging technology in which artificial intelligence guides the discovery process, helping design experiments or perfecting decision strategies. While these labs have generated heated debate about whether humans or machines should lead scientific research, a new paper from Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Molecular [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227440","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227440","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227440\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}