About Artificially Intelligent Lab Assistant (AILA):
- It is an AI agent which can independently run complex scientific experiments, analyse results, and make decisions in real time.
- It was developed by IIT Delhi researchers in collaboration with scientists from Denmark and Germany.
- Unlike earlier AI tools that mainly helped with writing or data analysis, AILA works directly with laboratory instruments.
- It can operate real scientific equipment, particularly the Atomic Force Microscope (AFM), one of the most delicate and complex instruments used to study materials at the nano scale.
- When AILA is instructed to perform an experiment, it writes the necessary code, operates the scientific instrument, collects data, and analyses the results on its own.
- The entire scientific workflow, data generation, processing, and interpretation, is automated through AILA.
- It performs experiments much like a trained scientist.
