RoboChem: Autonomous synthesis robot uses AI to speed up chemical discovery |University of Amsterdam

Chemists of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) have developed an autonomous chemical synthesis robot with an integrated AI-driven machine learning unit. Dubbed ‘RoboChem’, the benchtop device can outperform a human chemist in terms of speed and accuracy while also displaying a high level of ingenuity. As the first of its kind, it could significantly accelerate chemical discovery of molecules for pharmaceutical and many other applications. RoboChem’s first results were published on 25 January in the journal Science. RoboChem was developed by the group of Prof. Timothy Noël at the UvA’s Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences. In the video, Noël and Aidan Slattery explain how RoboChem works.