Mit winzigen Glasbüchern gefüllte Roboterbibliotheken könnten Daten über Jahrtausende hinweg speichern

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A team at Microsoft Research combined lasers, machine learning and tiny glass rectangles to demonstrate [a new robotic data storage system](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-10042-w) that could, in theory, still be readable 10,000 years from now—twice as long as humans have been writing things down to date.

The process, described recently in *Nature,* is designed for archiving records that don’t need to be accessed often, such as certain climate measurements, historical records and other reference materials. If scaled, the technology could someday [store mountains of humanity’s accumulated knowledge](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-send-a-message-to-future-civilizations/) in libraries made of glass.

“This is an exciting and very promising development,” says [Doris Mönck](https://www.alfred.edu/academics/faculty-staff/profiles/moencke-doris-c.cfm)[e](https://www.alfred.edu/academics/faculty-staff/profiles/moencke-doris-c.cfm), a glass chemist and an associate professor for glass science at Alfred University in New York State, who wasn’t involved in the study. “They sure went farther than anything I have seen recently at glass conferences.”

Read more: [https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/microsoft-scientists-invent-tiny-glass-books-that-could-store-data-for/](https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/microsoft-scientists-invent-tiny-glass-books-that-could-store-data-for/)