Closing the loop between AI and robotic experiments
Summary
The powers of artificial intelligence (AI) and robotic experiment systems have come together in pioneering proof-of-concept work at the National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS) in Japan. The researchers describe the development and demonstration of their ‘closed loop’ automation software in the journal Science and Technology of Advanced Materials: Methods. The team demonstrated the potential of their system by using it to identify electrolytes that would be suitable for mediating the movement of ions in lithium-metal batteries. To make the whole process as easy to use as possible for a wide range of researchers the team also designed an easy-to-use graphical user interface to control it. "The results of initial work by the robotic system via NIMS-OS can be fed back to refine the AI algorithms that control it, through several cycles of test and improvement," says Tamura.