"Berkeley researcher uses robots and AI to accelerate research 100-fold"
Yan Zeng and his team at Berkeley Lab have built a new material research laboratory called A-Lab, equipped with three robotic arms and eight furnaces, where robots do the work and AI can make routine decisions, thereby accelerating the pace of research by as much as 100 times compared to a human. The A-Lab aims to synthesize novel materials for use in clean energy technologies such as solar cells, fuel cells, and thermoelectrics.