Scientific discovery

On-the-fly closed-loop materials discovery via Bayesian active learning

Citations: 388 • 2020

Towards Robot Scientists for autonomous scientific discovery

Andrew C. Sparkes, Wayne Aubrey, Emma Byrne, Amanda Clare, M. N. A. Khan, Maria Liakata, Magdalena Markham, Jem J. Rowland, Larisa Soldatova, Kenneth E. Whelan, Michael J. Young, Ross D. King

Citations: 186 • 2010

The search for regularity : four aspects of scientific discovery

Patrick Langley, Jan M. Żytkow, Herbert A. Simon, Gary L. Bradshaw

Citations: 84 • 2018

Data challenges of time domain astronomy

Citations: 29 • 2012

Automating Sciences: Philosophical and Social Dimensions

Ross D. King, Vlad Schüler‐Costa, Chris Mellingwood, Larisa Soldatova

Citations: 29 • 2018

Computer-Aided Discovery: Toward Scientific Insight Generation with Machine Support

Victor Pankratius, Justin Li, Michael Gowanlock, D. M. Blair, Cody Rude, Frank D. Lind, P. J. Erickson, C. J. Lonsdale

Citations: 22 • 2016

The LEGOLAS Kit: A low-cost robot science kit for education with symbolic regression for hypothesis discovery and validation

Logan Saar, Haotong Liang, Alex Wang, Austin McDannald, Efrain E. Rodriguez, Ichiro Takeuchi, A. Gilad Kusne

Citations: 17 • 2022

Accelerating discovery in natural science laboratories with AI and robotics: Perspectives and challenges

Andrew I. Cooper, Patrick Courtney, Kourosh Darvish, Moritz Eckhoff, Hatem Fakhruldeen, Andrea Gabrielli, Animesh Garg, Sami Haddadin, Kanako Harada, Jason E. Hein, Maria Hübner, Dennis Knobbe, Gabriella Pizzuto, Florian Shkurti, Kerstin Thurow, Rafael Vescovi, Birgit Vogel‐Heuser, A. Wolf, Naruki Yoshikawa, Yan Zeng, Zhengxue Zhou, Henning Zwirnmann

Citations: 10 • 2025

The emergence of neurodiplomacy

Mohammed A. Mostajo-Radji

Citations: 7 • 2022

On scientific foundation models: Rigorous definitions, key applications, and a comprehensive survey

Sidharth S. Menon, Trishit Mondal, Shuvayan Brahmachary, Aniruddha Panda, Subodh M. Joshi, Kaushic Kalyanaraman, Ameya D. Jagtap

Citations: 6 • 2026

From Automation to Autonomy: A Survey on Large Language Models in Scientific Discovery

Tianshi Zheng, Zheye Deng, Weiqi Wang, Jiaxin Bai, Zihao Wang, Yangqiu Song

Citations: 6 • 2025

Situated experimental agents for scientific discovery

Samuel C. Stanton

Citations: 4 • 2018

AutoSciLab: A Self-Driving Laboratory for Interpretable Scientific Discovery

Saaketh Desai, Sadhvikas Addamane, Jeffrey Y. Tsao, Igal Brener, Laura Swiler, Rémi Dingreville, Prasad P. Iyer

Citations: 4 • 2025

Creating a discoverer: Autonomous knowledge seeking agent

Jan M. Żytkow

Citations: 4 • 1995

The JASON project: hi-tech exploration promotes students' interest in science

Robert D. Ballard

Citations: 4 • 1992

Curious and Creative Machines

Hod Lipson

Citations: 4 • 2017

A Low-Cost Robot Science Kit for Education with Symbolic Regression for Hypothesis Discovery and Validation

Logan Saar, Haotong Liang, Alex Wang, Austin McDannald, Efrain Rodriguez, Ichiro Takeuchi, A. Gilad Kusne

Citations: 3 • 2022

Agents of Exploration and Discovery

Pat Langley

Citations: 2 • 2022

From Automation to Autonomy: A Survey on Large Language Models in Scientific Discovery

Tianshi Zheng, Zheye Deng, Weiqi Wang, Jiaxin Bai, Zihao Wang, Yangqiu Song

Citations: 2 • 2025

Advancing scientific discovery with the aid of robotics

Amos Matsiko

Citations: 1 • 2024