Acceleration Consortium

Led by Alán Aspuru-Guzik, the Acceleration Consortium (AC) at the University of Toronto is a global community of academia, government, and industry accelerating the design and discovery of a wide range of new materials and molecules, from renewable energy and consumer electronics to drugs. Using self-driving laboratories, the AC leverages the power of artificial intelligence (AI), robotics, engineering and chemistry to dramatically reduce the time and cost of bringing these advanced materials to market—from an average of 20 years and $100 million to as little as 1 year and $1 million.