Andy Cooper
@aicooper.bsky.social
Mostly science related. Occasional gardening to be feared. "Aren't you the guy who built that robot?"
Another autonomous laboratory using mobile #robots - "Decoding active sites in high-entropy catalysts via attention-enhanced model" by Liang Yin et al.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #SDL #chemsky #compchemsky #AIforScience
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #SDL #chemsky #compchemsky #AIforScience
February 16, 2026 at 12:56 PM
Another autonomous laboratory using mobile #robots - "Decoding active sites in high-entropy catalysts via attention-enhanced model" by Liang Yin et al.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #SDL #chemsky #compchemsky #AIforScience
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #SDL #chemsky #compchemsky #AIforScience
Our Autonomous Chemistry Lab got Silver Leaf Award for sustainability. We would have got Gold, but they had to build a small modular reactor in Utah to power the AI. (Joke: see doi.org/10.26434/che...)
February 11, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Our Autonomous Chemistry Lab got Silver Leaf Award for sustainability. We would have got Gold, but they had to build a small modular reactor in Utah to power the AI. (Joke: see doi.org/10.26434/che...)
Walking through London and this hoves into view, I thought I recognised the street name
January 28, 2026 at 4:48 PM
Walking through London and this hoves into view, I thought I recognised the street name
Just out on ChemRxiv our new preprint, “Can We Automate Scientific Reasoning in Closed-Loop Experiments using Large Language Models?” @liverpooluni.bsky.social @aichemyhub.bsky.social chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10....
January 28, 2026 at 7:22 AM
Just out on ChemRxiv our new preprint, “Can We Automate Scientific Reasoning in Closed-Loop Experiments using Large Language Models?” @liverpooluni.bsky.social @aichemyhub.bsky.social chemrxiv.org/doi/full/10....
It's not super clear, but that feed line wiggles at the precise time when the weighing went wrong. And that line was inactive at the time. The robot is not touching anything at this point. Conclusion: poltergeist. Or more likely, brief disruption in lab airflow that displaced the balance. 🔍
January 21, 2026 at 4:15 PM
It's not super clear, but that feed line wiggles at the precise time when the weighing went wrong. And that line was inactive at the time. The robot is not touching anything at this point. Conclusion: poltergeist. Or more likely, brief disruption in lab airflow that displaced the balance. 🔍
Running an autonomous LLM-driven experiment and found a single, odd dispensing behaviour. My student, QJ, suspected airflow disturbance. I said "I doubt we have a Japanese wind spirit in the lab". Just watched video playback from last night. It seems there is a Japanese wind spirit in the lab. 😳
January 21, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Running an autonomous LLM-driven experiment and found a single, odd dispensing behaviour. My student, QJ, suspected airflow disturbance. I said "I doubt we have a Japanese wind spirit in the lab". Just watched video playback from last night. It seems there is a Japanese wind spirit in the lab. 😳
One key inspiration for this work...
January 13, 2026 at 9:42 PM
One key inspiration for this work...
Just archived today - "RobInHood: A Robotic Chemist in a Fume Hood" - where we squeezed a robot arm into a standard-format fume hood to carry out a range of chemistry operations. Potentially scalable to any lab that has fume hoods. Well done Louis, Franciso et al. chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr... 🤖🧪
January 13, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Just archived today - "RobInHood: A Robotic Chemist in a Fume Hood" - where we squeezed a robot arm into a standard-format fume hood to carry out a range of chemistry operations. Potentially scalable to any lab that has fume hoods. Well done Louis, Franciso et al. chemrxiv.org/engage/chemr... 🤖🧪
Views nicer in daylight
January 5, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Views nicer in daylight
Just took a 10 pm Sunday evening walk through the snowy village fields. It was a bit darker, mistier, and zombie apocalyptic than I’d banked on. Didn’t see a living soul.
January 4, 2026 at 10:35 PM
Just took a 10 pm Sunday evening walk through the snowy village fields. It was a bit darker, mistier, and zombie apocalyptic than I’d banked on. Didn’t see a living soul.
Just brought out the River Dragon
December 26, 2025 at 11:28 PM
Just brought out the River Dragon
Happy Christmas, everyone
December 25, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Happy Christmas, everyone
Equally unsurprising
December 12, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Equally unsurprising
Yeah, well this 55-year-old “senior” is increasingly minded to have them for weekday breakfasts
December 12, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Yeah, well this 55-year-old “senior” is increasingly minded to have them for weekday breakfasts
Vacuum tube valves not shown
December 8, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Vacuum tube valves not shown
Our paper is out on what we affectionately called the Capernator-4000 during development. The device is fully steam powered and can be applied in most branches of Natural Philosophy and Physik. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1.... First paper on using this in real workflows is about to be submitted.
December 8, 2025 at 7:57 AM
Our paper is out on what we affectionately called the Capernator-4000 during development. The device is fully steam powered and can be applied in most branches of Natural Philosophy and Physik. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1.... First paper on using this in real workflows is about to be submitted.
L2M3OF: A large language multimodal model for metal-organic frameworks arxiv.org/pdf/2510.20976
November 3, 2025 at 9:30 AM
L2M3OF: A large language multimodal model for metal-organic frameworks arxiv.org/pdf/2510.20976
I went tonight to see my PhD student Emma Brass’s fantastic AI art exhibit in Liverpool. It features a 4x4 m screen with a giant robot arm (see video below) and the whole thing is really fantastic!
October 29, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I went tonight to see my PhD student Emma Brass’s fantastic AI art exhibit in Liverpool. It features a 4x4 m screen with a giant robot arm (see video below) and the whole thing is really fantastic!
Sorry to be leaving Toronto today - here is the sunset last night from the apartment where I stayed - many thanks to @accelerationc.bsky.social for hosting me!
October 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Sorry to be leaving Toronto today - here is the sunset last night from the apartment where I stayed - many thanks to @accelerationc.bsky.social for hosting me!