Yehezkel Lipinsky

Guided by the company’s staff, the robot might choose several promising powders based on existing scientific literature, mix them in a laboratory flask, heat them in a furnace, test the material and repeat the whole process with different powders.

By analyzing both a collection of photos and the captions that describe those photos, for example, a system can grasp the relationships between the two. It can learn that the word “apple” describes a round red fruit.

At Periodic Labs, A.I. systems will learn from scientific literature, physical experimentation and repeated efforts to modify and... See more

Periodic Labs, which has secured over $300 million in seed funding from the venture capital firm a16z and others, has started its work at a research lab in San Francisco. But it plans to build its own lab in Menlo Park, Calif., where robots — physical robots — will run scientific experiments on an enormous scale.

The company’s researchers will... See more

Whenever possible, I try to keep buttons and features in their default state — enabled , accessible, and legible. When a user interacts with that feature, we can explain why they can’t use it, how to enable it, and how to keep it enabled. Possible exceptions are confirmation codes and loading/processing states.