# About the Challenges and Opportunities category

**URL:** <https://accelerated-discovery.org/t/about-the-challenges-and-opportunities-category/551>\
**Category:** Challenges and Opportunities\
**Created:** [August 26, 2025, 6:50pm UTC](https://accelerated-discovery.org/t/about-the-challenges-and-opportunities-category/551 "2025-08-26T18:50:22Z")\
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**Author:** ![npaulson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/c89c15/32.png) [@npaulson](https://accelerated-discovery.org/u/npaulson)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2025, 6:50pm UTC](https://accelerated-discovery.org/t/about-the-challenges-and-opportunities-category/551/1 "2025-08-26T18:50:22Z")

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A place to identify/discuss challenges facing laboratory autonomy and opportunities to take action to address them.

- This channel contain sub-channels focused on different categories of challenges or related activities
- Discussions in this forum are intended to contribute to a community perspective paper on challenges and opportunities for laboratory autonomy. Here are associated living documents that will be used to organize and record key findings.
  - Objectives: [Objectives - Google Docs](https://docs.google.com/document/d/17ApM5pTRmEloCQ2AuldkzCQ2fgaAsCWqrAT6XHwP8Bw/edit?usp=sharing)
  - Challenges and Opportunities: [challenges-and-opportunities-notes - Google Docs](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1O8-utGkZ_SZnxmW-LhQ6ki55ubWlb_z2fdu_7V2Li98/edit?usp=sharing)
  - Resources: [Resources - Google Docs](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kk_oPdJE3LPDzuFITW_SsSsIHagFQp8166qhA5mQB1w/edit?usp=sharing)
  - Related Efforts: [Related Efforts - Google Docs](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HnbU7G2dDUsuyzGjEDRetX0YUoSItoCZEBJjU7NMChw/edit?usp=sharing)

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**Author:** ![sgbaird](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex003/user_avatar/accelerated-discovery.org/sgbaird/32/341_2.png) [@sgbaird](https://accelerated-discovery.org/u/sgbaird)\
**Post date:** [October 17, 2025, 6:37pm UTC](https://accelerated-discovery.org/t/about-the-challenges-and-opportunities-category/551/2 "2025-10-17T18:37:30Z")

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Just noticed the Google docs links from here. Thanks!