Self-Building Labs

The paper introduces the self‑building laboratory (SBL), an autonomous system that designs, configures, and operates its own laboratory setup based on a high‑level scientific goal. Unlike existing self‑driving laboratories that can only run pre‑built procedures, the SBL starts from any existing environment—whether empty or partially equipped—and builds missing capabilities such as lab layout, digital twin, robot skills, and experimental workflows. The authors demonstrate the system across multiple robots and setups, including a real‑world quantum‑dot synthesis experiment, showing that researchers can shift from manual configuration to simply specifying scientific objectives.

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