Yahoo! News - Scientists Develop Experimenting Robot: "British scientists say they may have invented themselves out of a job. A new robotic system they developed can, for the first time, independently design and carry out a genetics experiment, and then interpret the results




No difference was found between the lab bench results generated by the robot scientist and those gathered by graduate students doing similar work, the researchers report in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature.
While the system remains in its infancy, they hope it will someday conduct lab-intensive work, freeing themselves from drudgery. "

the shape of R&D to come
by: cat00012000 01/15/04 11:43 am EST

Someday almost all research and developement will probably be done this way. Wouldn't it be nice if we were putting our money into this instead of jewelry and weapons? Ah life, what a bowl of cherries!