Editor’s Note: This is part of a series called Inside the Lab, which gives audiences a first-hand look at the research laboratories at the University of Chicago and the scholars who are tackling some ...

Life science moves at a frantic pace. New discoveries pop up daily. Researchers chase cures for terrible diseases. They hunt ...

Lisa Bates, a medical technologist see seen through the window of a PCR analysis machine in the PCR testing lab at Quest Diagnostics on February 9, 2022 in Indianapolis, Indiana. The lab is capable of ...

Researchers have developed a digital laboratory (dLab) system that fully automates the material synthesis and structural, physical property evaluation of thin-film samples. With dLab, the team can ...

Scientists are building autonomous robotic labs powered by artificial intelligence. The goal, they say, is for these robots ...

Picture a surgical robot that can move, cut tissue, release drugs, grip and store samples, and wirelessly generate heat. You ...

The goal is to accelerate the path to fully autonomous humanoid robots ... maybe even ones that are as smart as we are.

It is not hard to find popular depictions of robots in the future. What comes to my mind is Rosie the robot maid from the animated comic “The Jetsons.” Ever faithful and dependable, she is as much a ...