Andrew Cooper, a professor at the University of Liverpool and Academic Director of the Materials Innovation Factory, talks to Nature Synthesis about the use of robotics and artificial intelligence for the synthesis and discovery of materials and chemicals.
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Andrew Cooper is the Chair of the Board for Gearu, a spin-out company in mobile laboratory robots.
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Seavill, P. Research with robotics. Nat. Synth 2, 467–468 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s44160-023-00333-3
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