Fast Company -
28 May 2026 13:00

Radical AIs self-driving lab designs and tests new alloys, speeding up a material R&D process that often takes human scientists 20 years or more. Inside a lab in midtown Manhattan, a robotic arm lifts small glass bottles and carefully mixes and weighs pellets of iron and other elements. Nearby, another machine melts the material into an alloy; other machines analyze the composition and structure and test it for hardness and how well it resists oxygen and heat.
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