New AI and Robotics-Supported Bio-Research Laboratory Opens in Vienna

The Artificial Intelligence is supposed to help with the design of experiments, said Malik, who recently moved from the USA to the new institute called "AITHYRA" of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), which focuses on the use of AI in biomedicine. With the many millions of molecules in a human cell, it is often not known which ones are active in a specific process that leads to a disease, for example.

ÖAW: AI Supports Wide Parts of the Research Process

The AI would pick out the most plausible candidates and then suggest experiments to test this. It would then write the code for the robots so that they can, for example, mix cells, molecules, and reagents, incubate them, and finally analyze what they do in combination.

While the robots work, the AI can monitor the processes, detect errors, and fix them for the next experiment, explained Malik, in the presence of EU Research Commissioner Ekaterina Sachariewa and ÖAW President Heinz Faßmann. Last but not least, the programs developed in his laboratory should be so user-friendly that every scientist, and not just a computer specialist, can routinely handle the AI and robot assistance.

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