A Lab Robot Found Four New Asymmetric Reactions in 30 Days, but Humans Set the Rules

In 30 days, an autonomous lab platform at the Polish Academy of Sciences identified four previously unknown enantioselective chemical reactions. The system used reinforcement learning to analyze results and choose what to try next, while researchers set the search space and confirmed the products, describing the work in Nature Communications on October 13, 2026. In a Polish Academy of Sciences lab, a robot spent a month chasing enantioselective chemistry and came back with four previously unknown asymmetric reactions. The system ran on reinforcement learning, making more than 3,000 decisions about what to try next, then deciding whether to optimize a hit or move on.

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