AI Agents Are Now Running Physical Lab Robots in Closed-Loop Discovery Cycles

Google has connected AI agents to physical lab robots to run closed-loop molecular design — including agents that catch and correct their own experimental errors in DNA design.

The most concrete sign that autonomous agents are leaving the simulator came this weekend from reports that Google connected AI agents directly to physical lab robots and ran closed-loop molecular design cycles. As @jason_mainella described it, the agents don't just propose molecules in software — they drive real experiments, read the results, and iterate, with the physical hardware closing the loop.

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