# Live assessments of SoTA

**URL:** <https://accelerated-discovery.org/t/live-assessments-of-sota/561>\
**Category:** Education and Workforce\
**Created:** [August 26, 2025, 9:28pm UTC](https://accelerated-discovery.org/t/live-assessments-of-sota/561 "2025-08-26T21:28:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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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, 9:28pm UTC](https://accelerated-discovery.org/t/live-assessments-of-sota/561/1 "2025-08-26T21:28:37Z")

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How can we keep up to date with the state of the art (SoTA) for autonomous science in a rapidly changing and evolving ecosystem?

This forum has a “Tools” category, and @sgbaird has a nice [Github repository](https://github.com/AccelerationConsortium/awesome-self-driving-labs?tab=readme-ov-file#workflow-orchestration) for this purpose. What else can we do? Are there any automation or AI tools we can leverage for this purpose? Should this be totally driven by human contributions?

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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/live-assessments-of-sota/561/2 "2025-10-17T18:37:06Z")

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I’ve started using GitHub Copilot Coding Agent extensively (separate from GitHub Copilot Chat - Agent Mode). You can see an example of this here: [Add EPICS · Issue #74 · AccelerationConsortium/awesome-self-driving-labs · GitHub](https://github.com/AccelerationConsortium/awesome-self-driving-labs/issues/74) (navigate to corresponding pull request). I use this pattern frequently now, but for this repo specifically, it’s helping to reduce some of the maintenance burden. I have also been exploring connecting Future House or other literature-based tools to these sorts of workflows as well.

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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:** [October 20, 2025, 3:35pm UTC](https://accelerated-discovery.org/t/live-assessments-of-sota/561/3 "2025-10-20T15:35:27Z")

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Very cool idea - maybe we can do the same to maintain lists of tools, publications, instruments, etc.