ROBOTS AND AI COULD SPEED SEARCH FOR QUANTUM MATERIALS

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark., Oct. 13 -- The University of Arkansas issued the following news release:

The Arkansas Materials Institute at the U of A will receive $3.4 million from the National Science Foundation to create a robot-controlled, AI-enhanced research infrastructure to accelerate research on new materials that could improve quantum devices. AURORA will build on the automatedMonArkQuantum Foundry and extend its capabilities through the cloud, allowing researchers around the state and across the country to conduct experiments remotely.

The subgrant is part of a larger four-year, $20 million project led by the University of Utah. AURORA stands for Autonomous Utah Resource for Open Research Automation. The work is funded by theNSF Programma...