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THE LAB

SECTION 11

ISSUE 001

PROJECTIONinstitution1-3yconfidence / medium

Self-Driving Labs as a Cloud

Projection: structured hypotheses will travel to remote autonomous laboratories as compute jobs do now. A public-interest allocation layer could reserve scarce instrument time for neglected materials, independent replication, and under-resourced institutions, while experiment lineage and queue fairness remain visible. The lab cloud needs scheduling ethics as much as scheduling software.

Why this idea is here

What the evidence establishes.

DOE is organizing autonomous laboratories across national facilities; networking research demonstrates transfer and knowledge exchange between exploration systems.

Source ledger

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  1. S01
    Achieving AI-Driven Autonomous Laboratories

    official research program / dated 2026 / retrieved 2026-07-09

  2. S02
    Networking Autonomous Material Exploration Systems Through Transfer Learning

    peer-reviewed primary research / dated 2025 / retrieved 2026-07-09

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