ReviewNature reviews. Chemistry2026
The past, present and future of self-driving laboratories.
Review in Nature reviews. Chemistry, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
What it found
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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
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Who cites it
1 citing paper in PubMed.
- Chemistry at a tipping point.Nature reviews. Chemistry · 2026Article
Corrections and comments
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Authors and funding
2 authors.
Funding
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Abstract
Self-driving laboratories (SDLs) merge autonomous experimentation, advanced reactor engineering, robotics and artificial intelligence to accelerate scientific knowledge creation. Over the last decade, SDLs have progressed from narrowly focused automation tools to multipurpose discovery platforms in which algorithms propose, execute and interpret experiments with limited human intervention. This Review traces the evolution of SDLs and examines the structural asymmetries that limit their maturation into shared scientific infrastructure. We frame the next phase of the field around three interdependent requirements: scalability, generalizability and provenance-complete experimentation. Realizing collective scientific superintelligence will require SDLs that reliably scale throughput, transfer workflows and learned models across laboratories and scientific domains and capture end-to-end experimental data and metadata from precursor preparation through synthesis, characterization and performance evaluation. Achieving this transition will depend on interoperable data and metadata standards, modular and integrable experimental hardware, and trustworthy artificial intelligence agents that reason under uncertainty within rigorous safety and ethical boundaries.
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