Automated drug discovery using AI and robotics

AI + Medicine Newsletter 2024–01–16

Last year, researchers from Google DeepMind and Carnegie Mellon showcased the automatic materials discovery and chemical research using AI and robotics. This year, the AI-guided automated experiment is also applied to protein engineering. A paper published by the University of Wisconsin–Madison demonstrated that a ‘self-driving’ laboratory comprising robotic equipment directed by an AI model successfully reengineered enzymes to have enhanced thermal tolerance, without any input from humans.