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Self-driving laboratories, advanced immunotherapies and five more technologies to watch in 2025

Sustainability and artificial intelligence dominate our seventh annual round-up of exciting innovations.
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  1. Michael Eisenstein

    1. Michael Eisenstein is a freelance writer based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

A researcher adjusting lab equipment of a self-driving lab, housed in a fume hood and connected to a computer

Self-driving labs, such as this one at the Acceleration Consortium in Toronto, Canada, use algorithms and robots to advance materials science. Credit: Johnny Guatto/University of Toronto

From sustainable architecture, cancer therapies and bioremediation to photonic computing, here are seven technologies that Nature will be keeping its eye on this year.

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Nature 637, 1008-1011 (2025)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-025-00075-6

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