The Buffalo Association for Self-driving Intelligent Laboratories and Interdisciplinary Convergent Autonomous Science
BASILICAS is a self-organized association of University at Buffalo researchers interested in self-driving laboratories (SDLs) and autonomous science.
SDLs are autonomous platforms that can carry out scientific experiments and reasoning with little human intervention.
SDLs have already demonstrated orders-of-magnitude speed-ups for scientific discovery. Funding opportunities are increasingly and explicitly calling for ideas in autonomous experimentation.
We are a group of UB researchers building or otherwise interested in SDLs and autonomous science. Our goal is to position UB as a hub and authority in this space.