Developing new catalysts requires large-scale, repetitive experiments with frequent changes to catalyst composition and reaction conditions. Manual experiments are time-consuming and error prone. A team has automated this process and significantly increased reproducibility by employing robots to manage reagent compositions and run the repeated tests.
Yay, more lost jobs for humans!
It’s just scut work, and needs direction from humans
Software engineering has already gone through a similar transformation where we expect all the builds, scans, tests to be automated, the scut work done by “robots”. That resulted in new job types, DevOps engineers, and the software field has continued to grow. While it remains to be seen how ai will affect the field, automating the scut work allowed the humans to be more productive, the field to continue growing, software to be better quality
Admittedly, we were not very good at this particular job.
yeah this is a bit like the automating of mapping the genome which was a good thing.
They’re only catalyzing and speeding up the demise of humans. Thanks for supporting the cause, cuz who needs humans anyways when the robots take over everything?..
Honestly its not like were doing the greatest job rn, why not let the clankers have a run
I for one am looking forward to the robit takeover. I think the world will probably become a safer and more pleasant place overall. Maybe there will even be some humans left over for zoo exhibits for robit entertainment.