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2026Nature

Robin: A multi-agent system for automating scientific discovery

Ali Essam Ghareeb, Benjamin Chang, Ludovico Mitchener et al.

What this work does

Combines literature and data-analysis agents to suggest therapeutic hypotheses, interpret laboratory outputs and propose subsequent hypotheses.

Connection to discovery

Provides a real laboratory-feedback case with an identifiable hypothesis/experiment/update cycle.

Evidence

Inspected iterative phagocytosis-assay/RNA-seq analysis and the explicit scientist-upload and experiment-selection steps.

Scope and limitations

Scientists perform experiments and sometimes alter suggested assays. Cellular assay findings and proposed mechanisms are not clinical validation; human work must be counted in autonomy claims.

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