Automates research. Toggle GUI with Shift+T (customizable).
Providing the player with new tools or adjusting the game interface, without fundamentally changing gameplay.
With the latest factorio update, autoresearch is spamming completed researches as fast as the game allows. I had, like, mining productivity 400 by the time I'd figured out what was hinkey.
It was a bug in Factorio, see: https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=60556