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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Nov 8.
Published in final edited form as: Nature. 2018 Jul 18;559(7714):377–381. doi: 10.1038/s41586-018-0307-8

Fig. 2. Overview of the artificial intelligence algorithm used for the exploration of chemical space with the liquid-handling robot.

Fig. 2

The liquid-handling robot performs reactions by choosing reactants from the pool of starting materials. Online analytics is used for real-time interpretation of reaction outcomes as reactive or non-reactive, and the reaction database stores reaction outcomes. Machine learning is used to build a model of the chemical space, recommend the next experiments and control the robot.