Robotic scientists will 'speed up discovery'
Scientists at the University of Liverpool have unveiled a robotic colleague that has been working non-stop in their lab throughout lockdown. The £100,000 programmable researcher learns from its results to refine its experiments. "It can work autonomously, so I can run experiments from home," explained Benjamin Burger, one of the developers. Such technology could make scientific discovery "a thousand times faster", scientists say.
A new report by the Royal Society of Chemistry lays out a "post-Covid national research strategy", using robotics, artificial intelligence and advanced computing as part of a suite of technologies that "must be urgently embraced" to help socially distancing scientists continue their search for solutions to global challenges.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 07 2020, @04:23PM
The "AI will solve it" craze has finally passed. Now "Robots will solve it".
Whatever "it" is, you can be sure researchers aren't actually trying to solve it any more. It's the same as how modern universities hire thousands of foreign laborers to churn out product with no decent training or motivation. Just stay in the basement until you've writing 5 papers. I don't care what they're on. 5 minimum.