New Delhi, Dec. 23 -- Imagine walking into a laboratory where an AI is carefully adjusting a microscope, running experiments, and analysing results all without human intervention.

Researchers from IIT Delhi, along with collaborators from Denmark and Germany, have turned it into reality, as detailed in their recent Nature Communications publication titled 'Evaluating large language model agents for automation of atomic force microscopy'

AI models like ChatGPT have served mainly as digital assistants, helping draft documents, answer questions, and analyse data. But researchers have now pushed these boundaries much further, developing AILA (Artificially Intelligent Lab Assistant), an AI agent capable of stepping into real laboratories and ...