# Automated Experimentation **Entity class:** Scientific AI capability **Domain:** Artificial intelligence / Laboratory automation **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition Automated experimentation uses software, robotics, and instrumentation to execute experimental protocols with machine-controlled scheduling, measurement, and adaptation. ## Mechanism and significance When linked to hypothesis selection and analysis, automation converts a laboratory from a passive execution site into an iterative learning system. ## Relationships - **Research dossier:** [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] - **Ontology route:** [[ASI and RSI Timeline Ontology#Scientific Intelligence and Recursive Improvement|Scientific Intelligence and Recursive Improvement]] - **Primary fields:** [[AI for Science]] · [[Scientific Acceleration]] · [[Machine Intelligence]] - **Adjacent concepts:** [[Agent Swarm]] · [[Automated Hypothesis Generation]] · [[Robotic Laboratory]] · [[Scientific Domain Collapse]] ## Sources and provenance - [[research/ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots|ASI and RSI Timeline Research Moonshots]] — immediate source for this node's role in the broadcast research map. ## Evidence boundary The research dossier establishes why this entity or concept belongs in the Moonshots ontology. Time-sensitive organizational, product, policy, and performance claims should be checked against the linked primary source or a current authoritative source before reuse as settled fact.