Speaker Abstracts

Mengdi Wang

Co-Director of Princeton AI for Accelerated Invention, and Professor of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Center for Statistics and Machine Learning, Princeton University

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

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 Extended-Reality (XR)-enabled human-AI collaboration. By connecting multi-model AI agents, smart glasses, and robots, LabOS allows AI to see what scientists see, understand experimental context, and assist in real-time execution. Across applications — from cancer immunotherapy target discovery to stem-cell engineering and material science — 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.