Researchers modify robots on the state key laboratory of precision and clever chemistry of the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in Hefei, east China’s Anhui Province, Nov. 24, 2025. Traditional chemical analysis has lengthy relied on steady trial and error by scientists. With the event of synthetic intelligence and robotic automation applied sciences, it has turn out to be doable to design experiments and difficulty directions by way of clever platforms, utilizing robots to substitute human labor in experiential operations, which reinforces experimental effectivity and precision.
In 2021, after eight years of dedicated effort by a analysis team from USTC, Xiaolai, the first-generation “robot chemist,” was efficiently developed. After a number of years of iterations, the second-generation dual-armed humanoid robotic Xiaolin has been put into operation, able to performing extra advanced duties. It has advanced from a substitute of human labor to a “research partner.”
According to Zhu Zhuoying, a professor from the state key laboratory of precision and clever chemistry at USTC, the team’s final aim is to allow robots to obtain absolutely autonomous scientific analysis. In the long run, they could establish fully new analysis instructions by “reading” literature themselves and obtain breakthroughs in areas past human exploration. (Xinhua/Du Yu)
Robot Xiaolin is pictured on the state key laboratory of precision and clever chemistry of the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in Hefei, east China’s Anhui Province, Nov. 24, 2025. Traditional chemical analysis has lengthy relied on steady trial and error by scientists. With the event of synthetic intelligence and robotic automation applied sciences, it has turn out to be doable to design experiments and difficulty directions by way of clever platforms, utilizing robots to substitute human labor in experiential operations, which reinforces experimental effectivity and precision.
In 2021, after eight years of dedicated effort by a analysis team from USTC, Xiaolai, the first-generation “robot chemist,” was efficiently developed. After a number of years of iterations, the second-generation dual-armed humanoid robotic Xiaolin has been put into operation, able to performing extra advanced duties. It has advanced from a substitute of human labor to a “research partner.”
According to Zhu Zhuoying, a professor from the state key laboratory of precision and clever chemistry at USTC, the team’s final aim is to allow robots to obtain absolutely autonomous scientific analysis. In the long run, they could establish fully new analysis instructions by “reading” literature themselves and obtain breakthroughs in areas past human exploration. (Xinhua/Du Yu)
Robot Xiaolai performs an experiment on the state key laboratory of precision and clever chemistry of the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in Hefei, east China’s Anhui Province, Nov. 24, 2025. Traditional chemical analysis has lengthy relied on steady trial and error by scientists. With the event of synthetic intelligence and robotic automation applied sciences, it has turn out to be doable to design experiments and difficulty directions by way of clever platforms, utilizing robots to substitute human labor in experiential operations, which reinforces experimental effectivity and precision.
In 2021, after eight years of dedicated effort by a analysis team from USTC, Xiaolai, the first-generation “robot chemist,” was efficiently developed. After a number of years of iterations, the second-generation dual-armed humanoid robotic Xiaolin has been put into operation, able to performing extra advanced duties. It has advanced from a substitute of human labor to a “research partner.”
According to Zhu Zhuoying, a professor from the state key laboratory of precision and clever chemistry at USTC, the team’s final aim is to allow robots to obtain absolutely autonomous scientific analysis. In the long run, they could establish fully new analysis instructions by “reading” literature themselves and obtain breakthroughs in areas past human exploration. (Xinhua/Du Yu)
Doctoral scholar Guo Lulu instructs an experiment by way of an clever platform on the state key laboratory of precision and clever chemistry of the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in Hefei, east China’s Anhui Province, Nov. 24, 2025. Traditional chemical analysis has lengthy relied on steady trial and error by scientists. With the event of synthetic intelligence and robotic automation applied sciences, it has turn out to be doable to design experiments and difficulty directions by way of clever platforms, utilizing robots to substitute human labor in experiential operations, which reinforces experimental effectivity and precision.
In 2021, after eight years of dedicated effort by a analysis team from USTC, Xiaolai, the first-generation “robot chemist,” was efficiently developed. After a number of years of iterations, the second-generation dual-armed humanoid robotic Xiaolin has been put into operation, able to performing extra advanced duties. It has advanced from a substitute of human labor to a “research partner.”
According to Zhu Zhuoying, a professor from the state key laboratory of precision and clever chemistry at USTC, the team’s final aim is to allow robots to obtain absolutely autonomous scientific analysis. In the long run, they could establish fully new analysis instructions by “reading” literature themselves and obtain breakthroughs in areas past human exploration. (Xinhua/Du Yu)
Robot Xiaolin is pictured on the state key laboratory of precision and clever chemistry of the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in Hefei, east China’s Anhui Province, Nov. 24, 2025. Traditional chemical analysis has lengthy relied on steady trial and error by scientists. With the event of synthetic intelligence and robotic automation applied sciences, it has turn out to be doable to design experiments and difficulty directions by way of clever platforms, utilizing robots to substitute human labor in experiential operations, which reinforces experimental effectivity and precision.
In 2021, after eight years of dedicated effort by a analysis team from USTC, Xiaolai, the first-generation “robot chemist,” was efficiently developed. After a number of years of iterations, the second-generation dual-armed humanoid robotic Xiaolin has been put into operation, able to performing extra advanced duties. It has advanced from a substitute of human labor to a “research partner.”
According to Zhu Zhuoying, a professor from the state key laboratory of precision and clever chemistry at USTC, the team’s final aim is to allow robots to obtain absolutely autonomous scientific analysis. In the long run, they could establish fully new analysis instructions by “reading” literature themselves and obtain breakthroughs in areas past human exploration. (Xinhua/Du Yu)
Professor Zhu Zhuoying (L) and doctoral scholar Chen Bingxu have a dialogue on the state key laboratory of precision and clever chemistry of the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in Hefei, east China’s Anhui Province, Nov. 24, 2025. Traditional chemical analysis has lengthy relied on steady trial and error by scientists. With the event of synthetic intelligence and robotic automation applied sciences, it has turn out to be doable to design experiments and difficulty directions by way of clever platforms, utilizing robots to substitute human labor in experiential operations, which reinforces experimental effectivity and precision.
In 2021, after eight years of dedicated effort by a analysis team from USTC, Xiaolai, the first-generation “robot chemist,” was efficiently developed. After a number of years of iterations, the second-generation dual-armed humanoid robotic Xiaolin has been put into operation, able to performing extra advanced duties. It has advanced from a substitute of human labor to a “research partner.”
According to Zhu Zhuoying, a professor from the state key laboratory of precision and clever chemistry at USTC, the team’s final aim is to allow robots to obtain absolutely autonomous scientific analysis. In the long run, they could establish fully new analysis instructions by “reading” literature themselves and obtain breakthroughs in areas past human exploration. (Xinhua/Du Yu)
Robot Xiaolai performs an experiment on the state key laboratory of precision and clever chemistry of the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in Hefei, east China’s Anhui Province, Nov. 24, 2025. Traditional chemical analysis has lengthy relied on steady trial and error by scientists. With the event of synthetic intelligence and robotic automation applied sciences, it has turn out to be doable to design experiments and difficulty directions by way of clever platforms, utilizing robots to substitute human labor in experiential operations, which reinforces experimental effectivity and precision.
In 2021, after eight years of dedicated effort by a analysis team from USTC, Xiaolai, the first-generation “robot chemist,” was efficiently developed. After a number of years of iterations, the second-generation dual-armed humanoid robotic Xiaolin has been put into operation, able to performing extra advanced duties. It has advanced from a substitute of human labor to a “research partner.”
According to Zhu Zhuoying, a professor from the state key laboratory of precision and clever chemistry at USTC, the team’s final aim is to allow robots to obtain absolutely autonomous scientific analysis. In the long run, they could establish fully new analysis instructions by “reading” literature themselves and obtain breakthroughs in areas past human exploration. (Xinhua/Du Yu)
Professor Zhu Zhuoying (R) and doctoral scholar Guo Lulu have a dialogue in entrance of Robot Xiaolin on the state key laboratory of precision and clever chemistry of the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in Hefei, east China’s Anhui Province, Nov. 24, 2025. Traditional chemical analysis has lengthy relied on steady trial and error by scientists. With the event of synthetic intelligence and robotic automation applied sciences, it has turn out to be doable to design experiments and difficulty directions by way of clever platforms, utilizing robots to substitute human labor in experiential operations, which reinforces experimental effectivity and precision.
In 2021, after eight years of dedicated effort by a analysis team from USTC, Xiaolai, the first-generation “robot chemist,” was efficiently developed. After a number of years of iterations, the second-generation dual-armed humanoid robotic Xiaolin has been put into operation, able to performing extra advanced duties. It has advanced from a substitute of human labor to a “research partner.”
According to Zhu Zhuoying, a professor from the state key laboratory of precision and clever chemistry at USTC, the team’s final aim is to allow robots to obtain absolutely autonomous scientific analysis. In the long run, they could establish fully new analysis instructions by “reading” literature themselves and obtain breakthroughs in areas past human exploration. (Xinhua/Du Yu)
Robot Xiaolai performs an experiment on the state key laboratory of precision and clever chemistry of the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in Hefei, east China’s Anhui Province, Nov. 24, 2025. Traditional chemical analysis has lengthy relied on steady trial and error by scientists. With the event of synthetic intelligence and robotic automation applied sciences, it has turn out to be doable to design experiments and difficulty directions by way of clever platforms, utilizing robots to substitute human labor in experiential operations, which reinforces experimental effectivity and precision.
In 2021, after eight years of dedicated effort by a analysis team from USTC, Xiaolai, the first-generation “robot chemist,” was efficiently developed. After a number of years of iterations, the second-generation dual-armed humanoid robotic Xiaolin has been put into operation, able to performing extra advanced duties. It has advanced from a substitute of human labor to a “research partner.”
According to Zhu Zhuoying, a professor from the state key laboratory of precision and clever chemistry at USTC, the team’s final aim is to allow robots to obtain absolutely autonomous scientific analysis. In the long run, they could establish fully new analysis instructions by “reading” literature themselves and obtain breakthroughs in areas past human exploration. (Xinhua/Du Yu)