Your new lab partner: A mobile robot chemist

[@thtrausan1]

We will finally have time to read those articles stored in the misc folder.

[@funny-video-YouTube-channel]

Impressive use of robots. This type of human + robot team will make impressive result happen for our civilization. We can be happy about that.

[@dandanthedandan7558]

Can it sterilize itself when working in sterile environments? Cause I imagine that these robots would be useful for handling dangerous microbes in place of researchers

[@dandanthedandan7558]

I knew this tech was coming, so much so that my sci-fi stories have its scientists operating robots in the lab instead of working in the lab themselves

[@maratkorsik8441]

Give this technology 5 years and it would substitute most of organic/medicinal chemistry PhD students.

[@danielwiczew]

@@ElmerGLue You're wrong in one thing: In bio fields, PhD students are often used as cheap workforce for doing experiments. It is wrong, but it is reality.

[@Aussie50InspiredDavidZ]

Nah, I think in 5 years, we'll just be using this technology as just another tool. A.I., robots, and Machine Learning are just tools for us to use.

[@檜皮猫]

This is awesome, definitely has the potential to speed up breakthroughs in chemistry if used properly

[@onurgokturk]

I melted when it pressed the button 2:28

[@naturewatcher7596]

Waiting for an affordable housekeeper model now. :)

[@stanleyperth]

Wow ... came across this while reseaching a ML specific Postgrad online course to further skill-up. Definately "one up" for UoL towards my choice of where to sign-up. A well-thought out implementation to manage the laborious sequential work so PhD students can focus on doing research i.e. reading Lit Reviews and thinking .....

[@the-best-fragments-of-movies]

very interesting information, but just why so much and so often, in this video, it was necessary to show a person's physiognomy?

[@johnsaunders1527]

Cool but how good is its banter algorithm?????

[@weskeralbert5564]

Omg I am goona lost my job in the future, panic..............

[@arty1799]

Grocery stores, large hardware stores, fast food restaurants, ... the 20 hour work week is getting closer.

[@Aussie50InspiredDavidZ]

It's a tool that chemists will use. It's not something that will replace us. AI and robotics are just tools that we will use to be more efficient and maybe even keep us safe.

[@sauvage_pikachu]

This is actually the 3rd robotic chemistry laboratory that I know of, the other two are: Chemputer, ChemOS

[@HaloGrndr]

Depends on how much automation you need to classify something as robotic, but to different degrees there's many many more examples. It's super exciting. I'm most interested by how to suggest new experiments using an algorithm.

[@JBB685]

Reminds me of an earthly mars rover

[@Sazoji]

great now I need another 4 years of grad school to keep a job as a senior scientist...

[@Aussie50InspiredDavidZ]

You probably will just learn to use the robot and control it on the job/during your phd research.

[@Sazoji]

@@Aussie50InspiredDavidZ you dont know how right you were, lab bought a similar one to automate qPCRs last year...

[@anastasia.2007.]

What a good Robot!

[@ChaosWinter]

Those of you who have never been in a lab might be amused by this, but the images in this video show the robot doing absolutely nothing. Also, a robot with just one arm couldn't work on a lab for a number of reasons. I don't doubt at some point robots will replace us at labs but this particular one can't replace anyone.

[@TheGreenLounge21]

They can carry out experiments but robots won't replace lab researchers. They do the repetitive things. No one will use robots for a few experiments or fiddle the experiments. When researchers figure out what they want to do, they will set the protocols, then robots do the work.

[@TheGreenLounge21]

PhDs or researchers are more to design experiments, which is a good thing like fiddling coding what programmers do in computer science. Does computers replace office workers that much? Created more jobs.

[@Zoza15]

How about specifically making the lab layout for the robot so it doesn't have to interfere with humans all the time. Thus it gets way more productive then human layered workspaces.

[@ILikePotatos]

wath is the name of the robot?

[@OxygenGenesis]

As long as human labor is cheaper than the maintenance and cost of this, humans will not be replaced. In the end, what makes or breaks the inclusion of this tech of all about how much profit the big boss can make.

[@williamhuang5329]

Hanzhen harmonic drive gear , gear reducer, robot gear , over 30 years experience

Whats the difference between a robot and the people that accepts a job like this?

[@Navarro1030]

You do not have to pay the robot a decent income and deal with his struggles in life. Robot means slave and that's what they are.

[@arty1799]

Brings to mind the film Elysium (2013).

[@dzfz2100]

But does it engage in lab banter and generate hilarious chemistry memes? Until that happens, I'll stick with my wonderful team of humans :P

[@weskeralbert5564]

Where is John Connor and Sarah Connor??????

[@newguynone4228]

Hey guys no dislikes

[@stevevokhe]

The poor thing's name means "trashbin" in hungarian. KUKA. LoL.

[@dzfz2100]

That's the name of the entire company!

[@MrFlexNC]

That hair tho

[@CarlosAugusto-yr3bn]

Every time i watch or read something like this, namely, AI technology, I remember from Yuval Noah Harari Book's Homo Deus and how what he's been saying since 2016 is happening right away!!!

[@INLF]

Or what Ray Kurzweil said since 1990...

[@Czeckie]

what has he been saying since 2016?

[@isidoreaerys8745]

Lol it’s so weird hearing foreigners talk about social distancing like it’s a big deal. Here in the American west it’s bussiness as usual just wear a mask. Why so serious

[@RobertSzasz]

Because lab techs might as well be robots? You'll never get a "hmm, that's strange" from automation...

[@СлаваСталину-т3х]

Because the job market isn't fucking STEM graduates hard enough.

[@mauricioarias7765]

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