Accelerating Discovery with Self Driving Labs
From NSF’s Discovery Files Podcast by U.S. National Science Foundation
April 6, 2026 · 18 min · Episode 153
About this episode
Milad Abolhasani discusses the development of automated fluidic labs for chemical and materials discovery.
U.S. National Science Foundation-supported engineers are developing a bold new vision for chemical and materials discovery. Milad Abolhasani, an NSF-supported associate professor, discusses his work developing automated fluidic labs.
People in this episode
Guest: Milad Abolhasani
Topics covered
- chemical discovery
- materials science
- automated labs
- engineering
- NSF support
Keywords
- self driving labs
- chemical discovery
- materials discovery
- automated fluidic labs
- NSF
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Organizations: U.S. National Science Foundation
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