Autonomous robotic labs powered by AI take over tedious scientific research tasks
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By Katia Riddle
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Summary
Scientists are developing autonomous robotic laboratories powered by artificial intelligence to take over the most laborious and time-consuming tasks from human researchers. The article traces the evolution of this idea from four MIT graduate students who believed programming cells would be more important than programming computers, to the current reality where robots can handle tasks like mixing chemical cocktails and testing molecules, freeing up scientists for higher-level work.
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· 3 pulledWe believed that programming cells would ultimately be more important than programming computers.
The goal, they say, is for these robots to take over human researchers' most laborious, time-consuming tasks.
Things like gene editing or testing new molecules typically demanded many hours in the laboratory — carefully mixing hundreds of chemical cocktails by hand and pipetting them into petri dishes.
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