A great day with the BRAINS Lab BRAINS | Center for Brain-Inspired Computing at the University of Twente, Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA), and the Constructor Knowledge Labs team, reviewing progress on MIND-MATTER — our ARIA-funded AI Scientist project investigating charge-transport mechanisms in self-learning neuromorphic materials (RNPUs).
The agenda took us across the full stack:
• RNPU overview and the new generation of multi-contact devices from BRAINS
• Project framework and the Twente ↔ Constructor Tech integration
• Phlogiston — our AI Scientist platform: architecture, components, and the human-in-the-loop workflow
• Constructor Tech Research Platform, including Constructor Hypothesis — a system for working with unstructured scientific information that surfaces gaps, bottlenecks, and unexpected parallels across the literature, and turns them into candidate hypotheses and research questions
• Validation pipeline, methodology, and early performance metrics
• Future directions: physical models, multi-contact device batches, scaling the discovery loop
We closed with a tour of the BRAINS Lab facility — always a reminder that an AI Scientist is only as good as the experimental substrate it’s coupled to.
Two threads we’re now taking forward: broadening the applicability of the technologies built inside Constructor Labs to adjacent scientific domains, and organising an autumn workshop on autonomous science to bring this conversation to the wider community. More soon.
Last week in Enschede — MIND-MATTER working session.
