Autonomous Lab Bottleneck Shifts to Hardware as AI Outpaces Experiments

A new review highlights that the bottleneck for AI-driven autonomous scientific discovery has shifted from algorithms to hardware, as AI generates hypotheses much faster than physical labs can test them.

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