The Rise of the AI Scientist: How Healthcare Researchers Are Using Autonomous AI in 2026
Autonomous AI systems are quietly shifting from passive data processors into active discovery partners. By reasoning across complex scientific literature, multimodal patient records, and lab instruments, platforms like Owkin‘s K Pro, FutureHouse‘s Robin, Google DeepMind‘s Co-Scientist, and Anthropic‘s Model Hardware Standard are helping research teams formulate hypotheses and guide experimental workflows. For decades, artificial intelligence…