A review on rhodamine probes for metal ion recognition with a future on artificial intelligence and machine learning

•Metals are crucial element in terms of biological, environmental, and/or industrial point of view.•Discussed greater than 150 rhodamine probes considering structure, ions, medium & detection limit.•Rhodamine probes for fabrication of AI-ML based model as lab-at-home.•This review is a reference with a wide range of dataset and AI-ML programming for future modelling.