Autonomy, by contrast, is about decision‑making and adaptation. The leap from automation to autonomy is not just more actuators; it is a system that can perceive its environment, reason about options, ...

ORNL scientists developed an autonomous field data-gathering platform to monitor and sample soils and transfer real-time data back to the lab. From left, ORNL’s Chris Masuo, Peter Wang, Udaya Kalluri ...

First, companies began using artificial intelligence (AI) to transform drug discovery. Now, they are jumping into the robotics race. With robots running labs, there can be more experiments performed ...