Off topic, I know, but I saw this article on Adam, the first robot scientist who does hundreds of repetitive experiments this morning as I, too, was doing hundreds of repetitive tasks and was intrigued. I thought maybe some other folks would be interested too.
Adam, who works at Aberystwyth University in the UK, is the "first machine to have independently "discovered new scientific knowledge". He can do up to 1000 experiments a day, working out the roles of genes.
It has already identified the role of several genes in yeast cells, and is able to plan further experiments to test its own hypotheses.
[Photo via BBC Science shows the robot. In the foreground are cylindrical columns that surround a taller cylinder and what appears to be a chute coming off the side. Behind that is a black table surface holding a white box about the size of a computer. To the left of that is another white box on a table which looks like a printer and there are more cylinders next to it that are cut off in the shot.]
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