Materials & Manufacturing · Recorded milestone
AI-discovered materials
Recorded year2023
DeepMind's GNoME predicts 2.2 million new crystals and Berkeley Lab's robotic A-Lab makes dozens of them (November 2023), with AI-found battery materials following.
Explore this milestone on the interactive mapBuilt on
Led to
- Wood as strong as steelForecast · ~2029enables
- Carbon-free aluminium smeltingForecast · ~2030enables
- Perovskite tandem solarForecast · ~2030enables
- Lithium-sulfur batteriesForecast · ~2031enables
- Air conditioning without powerForecast · ~2032enables
- High-entropy alloys in enginesForecast · ~2032enables
- Million-experiment materials searchesForecast · ~2032enables
- Solid-state cooling appliancesForecast · ~2032enables
- Direct air capture at scaleForecast · ~2033enables
- Wearable artificial kidneyForecast · ~2033enables
- Artificial muscles in robotsForecast · ~2034enables
- Designing objects that change shapeForecast · ~2035enables
- LED lamps near the efficiency limitForecast · ~2035enables
- Implantable artificial kidneyForecast · ~2036enables
- Self-healing materialsForecast · ~2038enables
- AI-designed catalystsForecast · ~2040enables
- Cheap bulk graphene and nanotubesForecast · ~2040enables
- Nanocoatings on everythingForecast · ~2040enables
- Rewritable office paperForecast · ~2044enables
- Rare-earth-free super magnetsForecast · ~2045enables
- Structural batteriesForecast · ~2045enables
- Refrigerant-free cooling standardForecast · ~2048enables
- Cheap aerogelsForecast · ~2051enables
- Nanomembranes that purify anythingForecast · ~2055enables
- Transparent metalsForecast · ~2063requires
- Room-temperature superconductorForecast · ~2068enables
Sources & evidence
Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.