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LabOS: The AI-XR Co-Scientist That Sees and Works With Humans

Cong, L.; Smerkous, D.; Wang, X.; Yin, D.; Zhang, Z.; Jin, R.; Wang, Y.; Gerasimiuk, M.; Dinesh, R. K.; Smerkous, A.; Shi, L.; Zheng, J.; Lam, I.; Wu, X.; Liu, S.; Li, P.; Zhu, Y.; Zhao, N.; Parakh, M.; Serrao, S.; Mohammad, I. A.; Chen, C.-Y.; Xie, X.; Chen, T.; Weinstein, D.; Barbone, G.; Caglar, B.; Sunwoo, J. B.; Li, F.; Deng, J.; Wu, J. C.; Wu, S.; Wang, M.

2025-12-02 bioengineering Community evaluation
10.1101/2025.10.16.679418 bioRxiv
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Modern science advances fastest when thought meets action. LabOS represents the first AI co-scientist that unites computational reasoning with physical experimentation through multimodal perception, self-evolving agents, and XR-enabled, embodied human-AI collaboration. To empower agentic AI with embodied intelligence, we built LabSuperVision, the first vision-language-model (VLM) benchmark spanning biomedical and materials science laboratories, designed to evaluate scientific perception and reasoning. This endowed LabOS with visual reasoning capabilities that surpass those of general-purpose models on laboratory-specific tasks. By connecting multi-model AI agents, smart glasses, and human-AI-robot collaboration, LabOS allows AI to see what scientists see, understand experimental context, and participate in real-time execution through immersive XR interaction and robotic autonomation. Across applications-from cancer immunotherapy target discovery to cell engineering-LabOS shows that AI can move beyond computational design to participation, turning the laboratory into an intelligent, collaborative environment where human and machine discovery evolve together.

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