Owl-AuraID 1.0: An Intelligent System for Autonomous Scientific Instrumentation and Scientific Data Analysis
arXiv:2603.29828v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scientific discovery increasingly depends on high-throughput characterization, yet automation is hindered by proprietary GUIs and the limited generalizability of existing API-based systems. We present Owl-AuraID, a software-hardware collaborative embodied agent system that adopts a GUI-native paradigm to operate instruments through the same interfaces as human experts. Its skill-centric framework integrates Type-1 (GUI operation) and Type-2 (data analysis) skills into end-to-end workflows, connecting physical sample handling with scientific interpretation. Owl-AuraID demonstrates broad coverage across ten categories of precision instruments and diverse workflows, including multimodal spectral analysis, microscopic imaging, and crystallographi
Authors:Han Deng, Anqi Zou, Hanling Zhang, Ben Fei, Chengyu Zhang, Haobo Wang, Xinru Guo, Zhenyu Li, Xuzhu Wang, Peng Yang, Fujian Zhang, Weiyu Guo, Xiaohong Shao, Zhaoyang Liu, Shixiang Tang, Zhihui Wang, Wanli Ouyang
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Abstract:Scientific discovery increasingly depends on high-throughput characterization, yet automation is hindered by proprietary GUIs and the limited generalizability of existing API-based systems. We present Owl-AuraID, a software-hardware collaborative embodied agent system that adopts a GUI-native paradigm to operate instruments through the same interfaces as human experts. Its skill-centric framework integrates Type-1 (GUI operation) and Type-2 (data analysis) skills into end-to-end workflows, connecting physical sample handling with scientific interpretation. Owl-AuraID demonstrates broad coverage across ten categories of precision instruments and diverse workflows, including multimodal spectral analysis, microscopic imaging, and crystallographic analysis, supporting modalities such as FTIR, NMR, AFM, and TGA. Overall, Owl-AuraID provides a practical, extensible foundation for autonomous laboratories and illustrates a path toward evolving laboratory intelligence through reusable operational and analytical skills. The code are available at this https URL.
Comments: 17 pages
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Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL)
Cite as: arXiv:2603.29828 [cs.AI]
(or arXiv:2603.29828v1 [cs.AI] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2603.29828
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From: Han Deng [view email] [v1] Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:49:23 UTC (11,145 KB)
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