Scientists merged human brain-like tissue with a computer chip in order to help teach small robotic systems how to navigate obstacles, as well as how to track and grasp items.

Opentrons has raised $10 million to support its bid to upend the market for lab automation devices. Backed by Khosla Ventures and ex-Pfizer CEO Jeff Kindler, the Y Combinator graduate is ...

The system demonstrates advanced automatic and autonomous material synthesis for data- and robot-driven materials science. The research is published in the journal Digital Discovery .

Japanese scientists have created the world's first 'thinking' robot that is able to steer its way around walls and obstacles.. The robot has brain-like neurons grown in the lab and when the cells ...

University of Tokyo. (2025, May 14). Digital lab for data- and robot-driven materials science. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 11, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2025 / 05 / 250514120105.htm ...

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Scientists have built a lab that replicates the conditions of space to test how robots could assemble large structures in orbit. Cranfield University is testing Multi-Arm Robot for In-Orbit ...

This data- and robot-driven science, along with the standardization of materials synthesis and measurement instruments, and the automation of data collection, will significantly impact how research is ...