The Cooper Group employs robotics, computational prediction and digital optimisation to develop autonomous methods that can speed up and refine the exploration of the vast chemical space.
Explore our areas of research including functional materials by design, digital chemistry and computational materials design.
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The 175-meter-tall mobile robots were designed by the team to tackle three primary problems in exploratory chemistry: performing the reactions, analysing the products and deciding what to do next based on the data.
Our facilities are located across the Materials Innovation Factory, the Digital Innovation Facility and the Department of Chemistry.
The Leverhulme Research Centre is driving a design revolution for functional materials at the atomic scale by fusing chemical knowledge with state-of-the-art computer science in a world leading interdisciplinary team.