livescience.com - 4/3/2009
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"I don't even know why the scientists make them!" exclaims a "Saturday Night Live" character in a skit about rampaging robots. Now she has an answer at least some scientists make robots to do science. A science-savvy robot called Adam has successfully developed and tested its first scientific ...
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Robot scientist Adam: A robot made to do science
Gizmo Watch —
... making, Adam with all sorts of mechanical tools to hold and segregate things, has three computers and a set of laser chips to monitor, control and help the bot scientist to investigate and carryout thousands of experimental tasks a day. The scientists have also developed Eve another biology research scientist robot that screens chemical compounds for new pharmaceutical drugs. The developers believe the two robots can work in harmony for better research and development.
Via: LiveScience
Robot ratiocination in research
GMSV —
... and by the end had identified three of the mystery genes that together coded for such an enzyme. Researchers double-checked the work, and Adam got an A. He’s also getting company. The same team is putting together Eve, who will be asked to autonomously design and screen drugs against malaria and schistosomiasis, using artificial intelligence to choose which compounds to test, rather than simply cranking through a list. In an observation that may have been uttered once before, team leader Ross King of Aberystwyth University said , “We made many mistakes and learned from Adam. ...
Adam the Robot makes scientific discovery
The Inquisitr » Technology —
... "This is one of the first systems to get (artificial intelligence) to try and control laboratory automation," Ross King, a professor of computer science who led the research at Aberystwyth University, told Live Science. Current robots, he noted, "tend to do one thing or a sequence of things. The complexity of Adam is that it has cycles." ...
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