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The past, present and future of self-driving laboratories

Jul 2026 · Nature Reviews Chemistry · Vol 10, pp. 523 - 537 · 0 citations · 160 references
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The evolution of SDLs is charts their evolution from bespoke systems to interoperable platforms, highlighting challenges in scalability, generalizability and data provenance, and outlining pathways towards networked, trustworthy infrastructures enabling collective scientific superintelligence.

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