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Inside the Lab Where Robots Run Their Own Experiments

254K views · Jun 21, 2020 · 8:13 · 0 HN recommenders · 3 mentions · discussed 2021–2024

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.

Why Hacker News points people here: HN cites it as an example of automated cloud labs and AI already running physical experiments.

“the more we can remove the human aspect and inherent ambiguity of science, the better for reproducibility”HN comment, 2021

What Hacker News said 3

Cites itdavnnJan 2021

“the more we can remove the human aspect and inherent ambiguity of science, the better for reproducibility”

Examples of automating science to improve reproducibility.

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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

in “Groundhog: Addressing the Threat That R Poses to Reproducible Research” · view on HN
Cites itstrateospeterAug 2022

“Check out this Seeker video to learn more”

Video about Strateos's automated cloud lab.

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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 ([email protected]) or directly on our website. link

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Cites itfennecbuttMar 2024

“But there is already ai running physical experiments”

AI already running physical experiments.

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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

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