Further Reading

The Robot Scientist tradition demonstrates closed-loop generation and testing of biological hypotheses with automated experimentation [ King et al. , 2009 ] . PROMETHEUS supplies the text–data–model research architecture and simulator packages motivating this testbed [ Mahadevan , 2026f ] . The three substrates are described by the singing-mouse projection, Harappan hydroclimate, and airborne-plastics studies [ Isko et al. , 2024 , Solanki et al. , 2025 , Liu et al. , 2026 ] . Pearl develops the distinction between observation, intervention, and counterfactual reasoning [ Pearl , 2009 ] . Surveys and benchmarks of LLM-assisted scientific discovery provide contemporary comparison points [ Zheng et al. , 2025 , Song et al. , 2025 ] . AGENTIC-SIM differs by freezing the causal, skill, and decision reference spaces separately and asking whether their admitted extensions compose under intervention, cost, and transport.