Empirical Research Assistance (ERA): From Nature publication to catalyzing Computational Discovery

👤 Lizzie Dorfman, Product Manager, and Michael Brenner, Research Scientist, Google Research
📅 2026-05-19

Published today in Nature, Empirical Research Assistance (ERA) is an AI tool for expert-level scientific coding that helped build the Computational Discovery prototype, now available through a trusted tester program in Google Labs. Full Product UX article at Google Research »

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