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  1. Can LLM design high-quality experiments? A Comprehensive and Systematic Benchmark on Autonomous Experimental Design

    Aug 4, 2026Zejun Liu, Jian Wu, Ru Peng +4AI for ScienceBenchmark Design

    Westlake University · Zhejiang University · Nanjing University of Science and Technology +1

  2. Beyond Solution-Centric Search: Adaptive Inquiry and Knowledge Revision for Autonomous ML Engineering

    Aug 3, 2026Shaokang Fu, Yulong Tao, Linbo Jin +7Active Information GatheringAutomated Machine Learning

    Alibaba Group · East China Normal University · Zhejiang University +2

  3. Agentic Stage-One Stellarator Optimization: Autonomous Multi-Objective Search for Finite-Beta Equilibria

    Aug 2, 2026Tingjia Zhang, Zhuoran Meng, Runlai XuAI Agents for Scientific DiscoveryMulti-Objective Optimization

  4. AgentHPOBench: A Benchmark For Evaluating LLM Agents as Sequential Hyperparameter Optimizers

    Jul 31, 2026Tianyu Huai, Tingshuo Fan, Xinchi Chen +5LLM Agent EvaluationAI Agent Benchmarks

    Shanghai Innovation Institute · East China Normal University · OpenMOSS +1

  5. An AI Scientist that Doesn't Drift: Taste, Structure, and Falsifiable Findings in a Quadruped Navigation Research Loop

    Jul 30, 2026Yiwen Zhang, Eloise Zeng, Jaeha Lee +1AI for ScienceHuman-in-the-Loop AI

    Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, U.S.A. · Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, U.S.A.

  6. Rehearse: Stepping Back from the Confidence Cliff in Self-Improving Autoresearch

    Jul 30, 2026Jiazhen Ji, Shouhong DingLanguage Model Self-AssessmentAutonomous Experimentation

    Tencent

  7. PUDA: An AI-Native Hardware Harness for Self-Driving Laboratories

    Jul 29, 2026Zekun Ren, Hongzhao Tan, Jiaen Yee +1Laboratory AutomationTool-Using Agents

    Berkeley Education Alliance for Research in Singapore (BEARS) · School of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU)

  8. Agentic AI for Scientific Reasoning in Autonomous Quantum Sensing Experiments

    Jul 27, 2026Takuya Isogawa, Ryotaro Okabe, Nutdech Phadetsuwannukun +2AI Agent BenchmarksLaboratory Automation

    Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA · Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA · Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA

  9. Cost-Aware Recovery-Pathway Identification and Bayesian Optimization for Autonomous Materials Discovery

    Jul 26, 2026Debajyoti Ray, Niranjan SrinivasCost-Sensitive LearningBayesian Optimization

    Coactive Science

  10. LabRobFail: A Benchmark for Robotic Failure Analysis in Chemical Self-driving Laboratory

    Jul 26, 2026Haobo Wang, Baoli Sun, Anqi Zou +8Robot Failure DetectionRobotics

    School of Software, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, China · Shenzhen Loop Area Institute-Hong Kong Science and Technology Innovation Cooperation Zone, Shenzhen, China · School of Computer Science and Engineering, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China +3

  11. Stress-testing large language model agents in a robotic chemistry laboratory

    Jul 25, 2026Lulu Guo, Yingkai Sun, Xiaobo Li +13AI Agent ReliabilityAI Agents for Scientific Discovery

    State Key Laboratory of Precision and Intelligent Chemistry, Hefei National Research Center for Physical Sciences at the Microscale, School of Chemistry and Materials Science, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, China · Center for Scientific Intelligence Innovation, Hefei, China · School of Chemistry, School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

  12. Scalable Low-Cost Laboratory Automation: A Digital Twin-Integrated Robotic Platform for Autonomous Liquid Handling (RAINBOT)

    Jul 22, 2026Mohamed Rami Ayeche, Souhil Sid, Ahyen Mostofa +3Laboratory AutomationRobotic Manipulation

    Acceleration Consortium, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. · AISCIA Informatics, Qatar Science and Technology Park, Doha, Qatar · Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Education City, Doha, Qatar.

  13. Toward Trustworthy Autonomous Science: A Two-Year Community Roadmap

    Jul 13, 2026Rafael Ferreira da Silva, Milad Abolhasani, Peter Beaucage +25Autonomous Scientific DiscoveryAI Agent Governance

    Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  14. From Closed-Loop Optimization to Open Decision Making: Coupled Digital Twins for Predictive and Autonomous Microscopy

    Jul 7, 2026Yu Liu, Boris Slautin, Ian Mercer +2Digital TwinsAutonomous Experimentation

    Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, 37996, USA · Materials Science and Engineering Department, Materials Research Institute, the Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, 16802, USA

  15. Compressing the Validation Bottleneck: An Agentic Self-Driving Lab for Scientific Discovery

    Jul 5, 2026Kyunghoon Hur, Chihun LeeAI for ScienceMultifidelity Modeling

    AX Research Division, Korea Electronics Technology Institute, Republic of Korea · Material Data Division, Korea Institute of Materials Science, Republic of Korea

  16. Optimal Resource Utilization for Autonomous Laboratory Orchestrators

    Jul 1, 2026Austin McDannald, Julia Tisaranni, Howie JoressLaboratory AutomationScientific Workflow Automation

    Material Measurement Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, USA

  17. A Self-Evolving Agentic System for Automated Generation and Execution of Biological Protocols

    Jun 30, 2026Yankai Jiang, Weiting Tang, Haoran Sun +11Scientific Code GenerationLaboratory Automation

    1Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Shanghai, China · 2Genoria AI, Shenzhen, China

  18. FARS: A Fully Automated Research System Deployed at Scale

    Jun 30, 2026Qiong Tang, Tianxiang Sun, Xiangkun Hu +54AI Agent EvaluationAutonomous Scientific Discovery

  19. One Reflection Is Not Enough: Self-Correcting Autonomous Research via Multi-Hypothesis Failure Attribution

    Jun 30, 2026Jie Ma, Binfei Chu, Jie Gao +6Agent Failure AnalysisLLM Self-Correction

    Xiamen University · Hello Inc. · Xiaohongshu Inc.

  20. STEMGym: Benchmarking Sequential Decision-Making under Dose Budgets in Autonomous Electron Microscopy

    Jun 28, 2026Can Polat, Erchin Serpedin, Mustafa Kurban +1Autonomous ExperimentationMicroscopy Image Analysis

    Dept. of Electrical & Computer Eng. Texas A&M Univ. College Station, TX, USA · Dept. of Prosthetics & Orthotics College of Science & Eng. Ankara Univ., Ankara, Turkey · Hamad Bin Khalifa Univ. and Texas A&M Univ. at Qatar Doha, Qatar

  21. AgentX: Towards Agent-Driven Self-Iteration of Industrial Recommender Systems

    Jun 25, 2026Changxin Lao, Fei Pan, Guozhuang Ma +59Software Engineering AgentsMulti-Agent Collaboration

  22. Socratic agents for autonomous scientific discovery in high-dimensional physical systems

    Jun 25, 2026Xianrui Zeng, Pengfei Liu, Yirui Zang +5Scientific Hypothesis GenerationAutonomous Scientific Discovery

    Hangzhou Institute for Advanced Study, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hangzhou, 310024, China. · Shanghai Institute of Optics and Fine Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 201800, China. · Department of Thoracic Surgery, Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital, School of Medicine, Tongji University, Shanghai, 200433, China. +1

  23. auto-psych: Automating the science of mind using agent-driven theory discovery and experimentation

    Jun 24, 2026Ben Prystawski, Kushin Mukherjee, Daniel Wurgaft +4Computational Cognitive ModelingAutonomous Scientific Discovery

    Department of Psychology, Stanford University · Department of Computer Science, Stanford University

  24. Closing the Loop to Discover Psychological Theories with an Automated Cognitive Scientist

    Jun 24, 2026Akshay K. Jagadish, Younes Strittmatter, Nori Jacoby +5Computational Cognitive ModelingAutonomous Scientific Discovery

    Princeton AI Lab, Princeton University

  25. Agon: An Autonomous Large-Scale Omnidisciplinary Research System Built on Prompt Economy

    Jun 23, 2026Youran Sun, Xingyu Ren, Chugang Yi +4AI Agents for Scientific DiscoveryHuman-in-the-Loop AI

    University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD, USA · The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China · Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

  26. Agentic AutoResearch forSpace Autonomy: An Auditable, LLM-Driven Research Agent for Aerospace Control Problems

    Jun 18, 2026Amit Jain, Richard LinaresAutonomous ExperimentationAutonomous Research Agents

    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 02139

  27. Dual-Agent Framework for Cross-Model Verified Translation of Natural-Language Protocols into Robotic Laboratory Platform

    Jun 18, 2026Hyeonna Choi, Jung Yup Kim, Hyuneui Lim +1LLM Agent OrchestrationLaboratory Automation

    Department of Bionic Machinery, Research Institute of AI Robot, Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials, 156, Gajeongbuk-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34103, South Korea · 156, Gajeongbuk-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34103, South Korea · Department of Nano-devices & displays, Nano-convergence Manufacturing Research Division, Korea Institute of Machinery & Materials, 156, Gajeongbuk-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34103, South Korea

  28. Empowering Polymeric Materials Discovery by Artificial Intelligence

    Jun 18, 2026Chenyao Ma, Linda Zhang, Yuheng Chen +29AI Agents for Scientific DiscoveryMaterials Science

    Suzhou MatSource Technology Co., Ltd., Suzhou 215000, Jiangsu, China. · Advanced Institute for Materials Research (WPI-AIMR), Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8577, Japan. · Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences (FRIS), Tohoku University, Sendai, 980-8577, Japan. +11

  29. NIMO: A Software Platform for Closed-Loop Materials Exploration with Diverse AI Algorithms

    Jun 14, 2026Ryo Tamura, Naruki Yoshikawa, Koji Tsuda +1Materials ScienceScientific Workflow Automation

    Center for Basic Research on Materials, National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan · Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwa-no-ha, Kashiwa, Chiba 277-8561, Japan · Center for Green Research on Energy and Environmental Materials, National Institute for Material Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan

  30. Remember, Don't Re-read: Stateful ReAct Agents for Token-Efficient Autonomous Experimentation

    Jun 12, 2026Faramarz JabbarvaziriLarge Language Model-Guided OptimizationLLM Agent Workflow Optimization