Inside the Lab Where Robots Run Their Own Experiments

Seeker · 253.6K views · 2020-06-21 · 8:13

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A Seeker short documentary on a lab where robots run experiments with almost no human intervention, covering automation and active machine learning in drug discovery and synthetic biology.

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HN cites it as an example of automated cloud labs and AI already running physical experiments.

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Robotics Biology & biotechnology Manufacturing & industrial processes

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fennecbutt · 2024-03 · Reference
Which will be so amazing. But there is already ai running physical experiments: [VIDEO] But it has been done for at lest a decade or so I think
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strateospeter · 2022-08 · Reference
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davnn · 2021-01 · Reference
The fun thing is that there are approaches that want to go beyond this kind of methodological description of a scientific process to code [0, 1]. In general I would say that the more we can remove the human aspect and inherent ambiguity of science, the better for reproducibility. See [2] for a couple of examples. [0] [LINK] [1] [LINK] [2] [VIDEO]
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