RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT

27 April 2026

Low-cost system can optimize synthesis of a wide variety of products.

A ‘self-driving’ chemistry laboratory costs only US$5,000. Credit: S. Pilon, E. Savino & O. M. Bayley et al./Nature Synth. ( CC-BY-4.0 )

An inexpensive robotic chemistry laboratory can help to speed up repetitive but crucial experiments to optimize a desired product’s synthesis 1 .

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Nature 652 , 1095 (2026)

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