{"title":"Self-driving laboratories need an autonomy safety harness","authors":"Linjiang Chen, Xiaobo Li, Quan Lin, Jun Jiang","doi":"10.1038/s44160-026-01120-6","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Industrial self-driving laboratories need more than safe robots and instruments. They need an autonomy safety harness that defines how AI-generated intent becomes executable experiments, monitored actions and trustworthy evidence for downstream research and development (R&D).","PeriodicalId":74251,"journal":{"name":"Nature synthesis","volume":"5 10","pages":"1475-1477"},"PeriodicalIF":22.6000,"publicationDate":"2026-07-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Nature synthesis","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s44160-026-01120-6","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Industrial self-driving laboratories need more than safe robots and instruments. They need an autonomy safety harness that defines how AI-generated intent becomes executable experiments, monitored actions and trustworthy evidence for downstream research and development (R&D).