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From Instrument to Intelligent Agent: Robotic Microscopy

Deploying Active Inference and AI to automate robotic microscopy and manage soil biology at scale.

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This Ecosystem project turns a robotic microscope into an Active Inference-driven intelligent agent for managing soil biology at scale. It develops AI systems that autonomously operate microscopy hardware, acquire data, and make decisions — treating the instrument as an inference agent in a biological environment.

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The project develops Active Inference architectures for autonomous robotic microscopy — creating systems that observe, plan, and act in order to characterize biological samples with minimal human intervention. The application domain is soil biology, supporting FarmWorks-adjacent ecological research.

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Roboticists, biologists, and AI engineers interested in autonomous instrumentation are welcome.

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