Inside the Lab Where Robots Run Their Own Experiments

Seeker · 253K views · 2020 · 8:13

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RoboticsBiology & biotechnologyManufacturing & industrial processesdocumentarydated

Why Hacker News recommends it

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

What it is

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.

Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2021 to 2024.

What Hacker News said

Cites davnn · 2021-01 · on “Groundhog: Addressing the Threat That R Poses to Reproducible Research”

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] [this video]

Cites strateospeter · 2022-08 · on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2022)”

Strateos | Senior Software Engineer (Ruby on Rails) | Remote within US* | Full-Time Strateos is a life sciences company that uses remote control and automated cloud labs. Our mission is to create new knowledge driven by data, computation, artificial intelligence, automation software, and high-throughput robotics with the goal of fundamentally advancing the life sciences. Check out this Seeker video to learn more: [this video] We are looking for a backend Senior Software Engineer fluent in Rails and experienced with Java. VISA sponsorship is available. *Employees can work remotely from CA, WA, NY, TX, OR, AZ, IL, NC, MA, DE, OH, VT, MN, VA. Feel free to apply via email (peter.bui@strateos.com) or

Cites fennecbutt · 2024-03 · on “Google Scholar search: "certainly, here is" -chatgpt -llm”

Which will be so amazing. But there is already ai running physical experiments: [this video] But it has been done for at lest a decade or so I think