The Use of AI-Robotic Systems for Scientific Discovery

Understand

The process of developing theories and models and testing them with experiments is fundamental to the scientific method.

• Automating the entire scientific method then requires not only automation of the induction of theories from data, but also experimentation from design to implementation.
• This is the idea behind a robot scientist -- a coupled system of AI and laboratory robotics that has agency to test hypotheses with real-world experiments.
• In this chapter we explore some of the fundamentals of robot scientists in the philosophy of science.