Completed Consortium · 2022 to 2025
Autonomous Quantum Technologies
AutoQT
A Riverlane-led consortium developing automated methods to control and tune large numbers of qubits.
Role: Partner
Themes: Computing, Software and algorithms
Mind Foundry
Start-up · Oxford
Mind Foundry, an Oxford machine learning firm now focused on defence and national security, has applied its Bayesian optimisation work to the slow job of tuning qubits. It was a partner in AutoQT, a £5.3m Riverlane-led consortium that ran from March 2022 to March 2025 to automate the calibration of hundreds of qubits, with a grant offer of about £698,000. Mind Foundry researchers co-authored a Nature Electronics paper, published in March 2026 with the University of Oxford and the University of Basel, reporting fully autonomous tuning of a germanium-silicon nanowire spin qubit from a grounded device to Rabi oscillations.
Mind Foundry is an Oxford start-up. It is a partner in 1 UK project: AutoQT.
Sources: Gateway to Research: Autonomous quantum technologies (AutoQT) · arXiv: Fully autonomous tuning of a spin qubit (Nature Electronics, 2026) · Oxford University Research Archive: Fully autonomous tuning of a spin qubit · Mind Foundry
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Sources
- Mind Foundry website (mindfoundry.ai)
- Gateway to Research: Autonomous quantum technologies (AutoQT) (gtr.ukri.org)
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