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Agentic AI for operating scientific instruments for nanoscale characterization

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Aug 25, 2026 · UTC

Operating a scientific instrument such as an atomic force microscope (AFM) requires continuous expert decision-making. A trained user defines the experimental intent, translates it into instrument commands, assesses incoming data, adjusts imaging parameters, and post-processes the final image. Existing automation usually addresses only parts of this workflow through hard-coded routines, task-specific controllers, or trained machine-learning models. Here we present an agentic-AI framework that operates the executable part of the AFM workflow using a general-purpose, tool-augmented large languag

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