Robot Scientist (also known as Adam) is a laboratory robot created and developed by a group of scientists including Ross King, Kenneth Whelan, Ffion Jones, Philip Reiser, Christopher Bryant, Stephen Muggleton, Douglas Kell, Emma Byrne and Steve Oliver.
Prototype As a prototype for a "robot scientist", Adam is able to perform independent experiments to test hypotheses and interpret findings without human guidance, removing some of the drudgery of laboratory experimentation. Adam is capable of:
hypothesizing to explain observations devising experiments to test these hypotheses physically running the experiments using laboratory robotics interpreting the results from the experiments repeating the cycle as required
While researching yeast-based functional genomics, Adam became the first machine in history to have discovered new scientific knowledge independently of its human creators.
Adam and Eve Adam's research studied baker's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) and is one of two robot scientists along with "Eve" (named after Adam and Eve), a robot currently doing research on drug screening.Robot Scientist Helps Design New Drugs, Voice of AmericaRobot scientist' Eve could speed up search for new drugs, kurzweilai.net'Robot scientist' holds key to new drugs, BBC News'Robot Scientist' Could Speed Up Drug Discovery, Sky News'Robot Scientist' Could Speed Up Drug Discovery, Yahoo News
Eve has been used for semi-automated testing for reproducibility of experimental cancer research.
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