A2SD-2026

The A2SD-2026 Workshop brings together researchers and practitioners shaping the future of AI-driven, interconnected, and automated scientific ecosystems. As instruments produce complex data streams at rates beyond human response, A2SD-2026 focuses on connected, intelligent, and verifiable autonomous systems that can operate across scientific facilities.

Building on the A2SD-2025 community roadmap and follow-up activities, the workshop highlights five key areas:

Architectures and standards for interconnected autonomous laboratories at scale;
Agent-based AI for scientific orchestration (including LLM agents with grounding and verification);
Distributed data fabrics and AI-ready infrastructure (FAIR-aligned, real-time metadata, interoperability);
Digital twins and closed-loop experiment-to-compute integration leveraging HPC; and
Standards, trust, safety, and workforce development for responsible autonomous science.

Interconnected autonomous labs Agent-based AI orchestration AI-ready data fabrics (FAIR) Digital twins + closed loop HPC Trust, safety + workforce