Just take a photo to determine the chemical composition

Chemists use machine learning and robotics to identify chemical compositions from images

21-Mar-2025 - Florida State University chemists have created a machine learning tool that can identify the chemical composition of dried salt solutions from an image with 99% accuracy. By using robotics to prepare thousands of samples and artificial intelligence to analyze their data, they created a simple, ...

Data recycling with AI: How new knowledge is created from old information

Munich start-up combats data chaos

17-Mar-2025 - Excel spreadsheets, PDFs, outdated databases - unstructured data sources are piling up in many companies, making it difficult to access valuable information. Technical specifications, standard documents and historical test reports often contain valuable findings, but remain hidden in inaccessible ...

Not humans or robots, but humans and robots

A perspective for AI-driven self-controlled laboratories of the future

12-Feb-2025 - The urgent need for a transition to sustainable energy sources demands a significant acceleration of traditional research and development cycles. Self-driving labs (SDLs), powered by artificial intelligence (AI), could play a pivotal role in this transformation. In a perspective paper in the ...

Advanced Automation Technologies (AAT) acquires TE Instruments

Expansion of combustion elemental analyser portfolio

03-Feb-2025 - Advanced Automation Technologies, a platform of laboratory-automation brands backed by global investment firm Battery Ventures, announced the acquisition of TE Instruments (“TEI”). Headquartered in Delft, the Netherlands, and with a sales subsidiary in Houston, TX, TE Instruments specializes in ...

Festo Celebrates its Centenary – 100 Years in Motion!

Innovation and Responsibility – Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

20-Jan-2025 - Creating added value for customers through innovation has been the driving force behind the family-owned company from the very beginning and remains the key to Festo's success today. With its constant determination to make people's work easier and thus increase efficiency, Festo has shaped an ...

Strengthening Filling Technology: Fricke strategically reorganizes business unit

Bundling expertise for more innovation and customer proximity

09-Jan-2025 - The Minden-based mechanical engineering specialist Fricke Abfülltechnik GmbH & Co. KG is taking a strategically important step towards strengthening its market position by reorganizing its filling technology business unit (BU) as of January 1, 2025. Functions that were previously organized ...

Advanced Automation Technologies agrees to acquire GERSTEL

Expanding automated sample preparation capabilities

26-Nov-2024 - Advanced Automation Technologies, a platform of laboratory-automation brands backed by global investment firm Battery Ventures, announced an agreement to acquire GERSTEL GmbH & Co. KG and its international subsidiaries. GERSTEL, headquartered in Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany and with sales ...

New ion speed record holds potential for faster battery charging, biosensing

20-Nov-2024 - A speed record has been broken using nanoscience, which could lead to a host of new advances, including improved battery charging, biosensing, soft robotics and neuromorphic computing. Scientists at Washington State University and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have discovered a way to ...

AI-driven mobile robots team up to tackle chemical synthesis

Chemical research in turbo mode

08-Nov-2024 - Researchers at the University of Liverpool have developed AI-driven mobile robots that can carry out chemical synthesis research with axtraordinairy efficiency. In a study publishingin the journal Nature, researchers show how mobile robots that use AI logic to make decisions were able to perform ...

“The integration of robotics and AI is poised to revolutionize science labs”

By automating routine tasks, scientists can focus on higher-level research questions, paving the way for faster breakthroughs

28-Oct-2024 - Science laboratories across disciplines—chemistry, biochemistry and materials science—are on the verge of a sweeping transformation as robotic automation and AI lead to faster and more precise experiments that unlock breakthroughs in fields like health, energy and electronics, according to ...