ADAM. The Robot Scientist at Aberystwyth University

From the paper Ross D. King et al., "The Automation of Science," Science 324: 85-89, 3 April 2009 . http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1165620

The Robot Scientist is perhaps the first physical implementation of the task of Scientific Discovery in a microbiology laboratory. It represents the merging of increasingly automated and remotely controllable laboratory equipment and knowledge discovery techniques from Artificial Intelligence.

Robot Scientist summary. A yeast library plate is taken out of the freezer. Various strains are stab-picked from this frozen plate and used to inoculate a plate containing rich medium. This plate is transferred into an incubator and grown for approx 24 hours to recover. The plate then undergoes liquid handling (not shown) to normalise cell densities in a defined medium and add metabolites. Finally there is an incubate-shake-read cycle to take growth measurements for approx 3 days.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• biology
• laboratory
• robot
• scientist
• automatic reasoning
• artificial intelligence

[happinesson]

cool technology! robot comes to life!

[nelrish24]

Awesome!

[d00m0racl3]

@KenFan4life look at japanese websites, i'll b damned if you dont already find something akin to that there, >.<

[wirelesscps]

dose it use PLC ?



[anukefromrussia]

Awesome, but I have a suggestion.

It currently looks like a giant Rube Goldberg machine.

How hard would it be to run multiple samples at the same time, like on a conveyor belt/industrial facility?

[doufupanda]

I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords.

[KenFan4life]

gotta be honest, I was expecting a terminator, but I guess it's still cool seein' these robots and stuff....wonder how long til people create one of these things that can give handjobs

[sanchezdot]

100/100 :)

[Oliveit0r]

heey

de verdad increible xD

[t193r7]

amazing, wonder if the same software could do research in a simulated environment