AILA (Artificially Intelligent Lab Assistant) Latest News
IIT Delhi researchers recently developed an AI- Agent AILA- Artificially Intelligent Lab Assistant.
About AILA (Artificially Intelligent Lab Assistant)
- It is an AI agent which can independently run complex scientific experiments, analyse results, and make decisions in real time.
- It was developed by IIT Delhi researchers in collaboration with scientists from Denmark and Germany.
- Unlike earlier AI tools that mainly helped with writing or data analysis, AILA works directly with laboratory instruments.
- It can operate real scientific equipment, particularly the Atomic Force Microscope (AFM), one of the most delicate and complex instruments used to study materials at the nanoscale.
- The agent has helped reduce the time taken to optimize high-resolution AFM imaging from 24 hours to 7–10 minutes.
- When AILA is instructed to perform an experiment, it writes the necessary code, operates the scientific instrument, collects data, and analyses the results on its own.
- The entire scientific workflow, data generation, processing, and interpretation, is automated through AILA.
- It performs experiments much like a trained scientist.
Source: NOA
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