UBC Chemistry professors Drs. Jason Hein and Curtis Berlinguette founded Project Ada, and are powering an AI revolution in clean energy chemistry.
In 2018, an $8 million Natural Resources Canada grant enabled Dr. Berlinguette and Dr. Hein, along with Dr. Alán Aspuru-Guzik of the University of Toronto, to assemble “Ada”, the first self-driving lab for clean energy materials. The multidisciplinary team chose the name in honour of Ada Lovelace, the world’s first computer programmer. Self-driving labs like Ada think for and work by themselves, combining automation with machine learning to plan, conduct and analyze experiments much faster than humans can.
Self-driving labs are used to accelerate the research and deployment of new materials and molecules — from life-saving medications and biodegradable plastics to low-carbon cement and renewable energy.
Read more here.