AI and the World's Hard Problems · Bioengineering & synthetic biology · Google Research · 2026-10-16
Grounding AI agents in biological reality: Building blocks for autonomous wet labs
Frontier AI models do not reliably reason about 3D geometry and physical lab state, which makes automating liquid-handling robots difficult. Google Research grounded AI agents in physical lab robotics so they can run fast closed-loop molecular design cycles. The agents discovered protein binders with single-digit nanomolar affinity for cancer targets.