Autonomous Labs
topic on 2 shows · 3 statements across 2 episodes
3 statements about Autonomous Labs, every show
Kulik: Autonomous labs struggle with experiments that are easy for humans
“There are some types of experiments that, at least as of the last conference I went to on this, are really hard for autonomous
high throughput experimentation, but are really easy for a human and vice versa.”
Hsu: AI reasoning and robot learning will accelerate autonomous scientific labs
“My big idea is that advances in AI reasoning capabilities and in robot learning will help accelerate scientific progress by moving us closer towards autonomous labs.”
Hsu: Autonomous labs will first penetrate mature markets like life sciences
“So I think there are certain categories of science where there is just a much more mature demand side market for the outputs of research. And examples include, of course, life sciences and pharma the chemicals industry facets of the material science industry. …”