{"id":229465,"date":"2026-01-21T01:40:34","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T07:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/physicists-employ-ai-labmates-to-supercharge-led-light-control"},"modified":"2026-01-21T01:40:34","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T07:40:34","slug":"physicists-employ-ai-labmates-to-supercharge-led-light-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/physicists-employ-ai-labmates-to-supercharge-led-light-control","title":{"rendered":"Physicists employ AI labmates to supercharge LED light control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-employ-ai-labmates-to-supercharge-led-light-control.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2023, a team of physicists from Sandia National Laboratories announced a major discovery: a way to steer LED light. If refined, it could mean someday replacing lasers with cheaper, smaller, more energy-efficient LEDs in countless technologies, from UPC scanners and holographic projectors to self-driving cars. The team assumed it would take years of meticulous experimentation to refine their technique.<\/p>\n<p>Now the same researchers have reported that a trio of artificial intelligence labmates has improved their best results fourfold. It took about five hours.<\/p>\n<p>The resulting paper, now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-025-66916-0\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Communications<\/i>, shows how AI is advancing beyond a mere automation tool toward becoming a powerful engine for clear, comprehensible scientific discovery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2023, a team of physicists from Sandia National Laboratories announced a major discovery: a way to steer LED light. If refined, it could mean someday replacing lasers with cheaper, smaller, more energy-efficient LEDs in countless technologies, from UPC scanners and holographic projectors to self-driving cars. The team assumed it would take years of meticulous [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[219,6,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics","category-robotics-ai","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229465","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=229465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}