Dr. Benji Maruyama is the Air Force Research Laboratory team lead for Autonomous Materials and the Autonomous Research System also known as ARES. ARES OS, an open-source software program, is now available online as a free download, thanks to a new licensing agreement. The product, 10 years in the making, aims to transform the research process by exploiting artificial intelligence and autonomy. (U.S. Air Force photo/Karen Schlesinger)