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- Recent breakthroughs in automation and active machine learning are taking laboratory science to the next level. What will the laboratories of the future look like?
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This is a laboratory run by robots with virtually no human intervention as part of an industry-wide push toward automation.
The robot scientists can be found executing thousands of experiments, searching for life-saving drugs, and building synthetic organisms.
In this Focal Point, we take a look inside Strateos, a robotic cloud lab that is fundamentally reimagining scientific discovery. We sit down with both Ben Miles, Head of Product at Strateos Cloud Lab, and Robert Murphy, Head of Computational Biology at Carnegie Mellon University, to learn more about what automation could mean for the future of scientific research.
Find out how these labs run by robots can transform how we develop new therapies, and even offer more reliable results, in this Focal Point.
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Carnegie Mellon: Masters of Science in Automated Science
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“The Computational Biology Department’s Masters of Science in Automated Science: Biological Experimentation (MSAS) program trains practitioners in the design, implementation, and application of automation in scientific research. Students train with world-class faculty, including those from the top-ranked School of Computer Science. Graduates become leaders in the emerging paradigm of Automated Science - the combination of robotic scientific instruments, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence for iteratively building predictive models from experimental data and selecting new experiments to improve them.”
Scientists Can Work From Home When the Lab Is in the Cloud
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“Silicon Valley-based startup Strateos says its robotic laboratories allow scientists doing biological research and testing to do so right now. Within a few months, the company believes it will have remote robotic labs available for use by chemists synthesizing new compounds.”
In The Lab Of The Future, Robots Run Experiments While Scientists Sleep
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“When you think about automation, you probably think of factories, not biomedical research labs. But advancements in artificial intelligence, robotics, internet-of-things technologies and cloud computing will change that. From software that helps scientists plan experiments to robotic labs that execute them flawlessly, these developments are creating labs of the future in which scientists have more time to think while distributed devices run and gather data on experiments.”
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Make a one cubic mile volume aniroid barometer so we got clean energy from atmospheric pressure
Everybody gangsta till a robot asks for human testing
Got tired of the "everybody gangsta" meme just for likes.....
@@raziasrazias7761 ok
Razias Razias ok...........................................................
@salinqrome i don't think it does
asks?)
Scientist: Hey, how are those test coming along?
Robot: The experiments are coming along nicely. The results will end many lives.
Scientist: Good, keep up the good wor--wait, what was that last part?
Robot: The results will save many lives.
Scientist: Oh, okay. Keep up the good work.
LMA-wait...
[Trump has joined the chat]
Trump: I'm taking it Hydroxychloroquine
I'm no more afraid of a robot then I am afraid of a washing machine, which is also a robot.
Semper Fortis the heck a pool chemical.
@Semper Fortis oh dang, tell me more
It's just a few steps away from becoming GLaDOS
Once it starts making cakes and working with potatoes is when we start to get worried
@@floydwordsworth9175 technology will impress me when I can download food.😂
Here we are again
@@c0ldNcl34r It's always such a pleasure
@Rafi Daryl Hafiz The Chinese have already built a facial recognition AI they legit called Skynet. The idea was something like "rebranding" the name from evil to good, but I'm not sure they're succeeding.
Automation doesn't replace the need for people, it changes the jobs they do.
Well said👏
this only holds true until we get general learning machines.
It really does both and we need to figure out how that transition can best be made - it will be different in different industries. There aren't a lot of stock brokers or dark room technicians these days for example. The auto industry employs a tiny fraction compared to 30 - 40 years ago. Soon there will no (or almost no) commercial drivers needed. Stepping up efficiency in the world of science should be just fantastic for all of us.
There’s plenty of work available for people. It’s a matter of priorities.
Worst case scenario is we get more free time and better quality of life
Except this doesn't happen in reality and people just get unemployed or in shittier jobs.
Plus the robot industry takes away jobs many times faster than anyone can create them.
And by the way, what jobs are we creating? Couching schemes basically
We should not lie if self learning machines become reality (even without independent mind) days of work for 90% of people are gone. Only way to have one will be to create some for yourself.
This is amazing. Use robots for the repetitive and time consuming job.
This labs can be useful for Hospital or Police department to perform DNA test or some sort of sampling. Just send the sample to the lab and let it run the test.
Yes! Lets definitely hurry the replacement of human labor with machines! Why would people want to do icky work??😐
We are seriously fcked as a species. The matrix actually looks better and better as an option...
@Rheet - ard That's what China is doing right now.
Amazing for who? The top 1 %?
@@FightTheByte_ this is probably the smartest comment on seeker
@@alileevil I'm working on an open source system.... For the people!
What do you call a robotic emo that likes dark humor?
Cutting edge technology.
OK, that made drop my tea in my lap from laughter😂😂😂🍵auwtch and muhahahaaa 🤣
You sir are the comedy king. 👑
Get out.
You have been visited by a plaque doctor.
He has found your joke very plaqueful and needs to cure the joke.
Now get out! Before you bring more! Just get out!
@@Clan_AlbertheGrey is your username trying to say plague doctor? Or did you want it to be plaque, like the kind of plaque that your dentist scrapes off of teeth? And is it trying to get rid of communism? Or are you a doctor who scrapes plaque, and just happens to be communist? So many questions...
This is another of those ideas where it always strikes me: "How come this is not already common practice?" :)
very simpel. money money money. robots like that are not cheap. and they cant handle new stuff. so you can only experiment with large scale test. so you still need humans.
but where this thing matters is say you find a new drug, but you still want to experiment with the concentration. you let the robot test many different concentration.
but if you dont know yet what molecule you need, humans are still nessesary.
@@rubikfan1 This might be true if you have undergraduate students available. But if not, the robots are actually way cheaper. But the difference is not only the price, but also reliability of results and scalability. I guess we will see a rapid growth in this area.
who wants to share their industrial secrets ? +i dont like/trust the guy, the programer at all!! :))))
Because that would take a whole new world order, with no separation between nations or languages or political parties. Global infrastructure with good intentions cannot exist in today's nationalist segmented religious world.
@@kukulroukul4698 You realize these "programmers" could give you the product and you can run it on your in your private network without the information ever leaving your company, right? (or at least if it leaves, it wasn't the programmers....)
This was a triumph.
I'm making a note here:
HUGE SUCCESS.
It's hard to overstate
My satisfaction.
Aperture Science
We do what we must
Because we can.
For the good of all of us.
Except the ones who are dead.
i think automation has one funny disadvantage. some invention by some scientists was done by mistake, automation leads to almost zero mistakes. 😅😅😀
Good point
The code can still have bugs, with the advantage that it's easy to inspect and transparent. So even the mistakes are better!
They can still do experiments themselves, the automation is more for running tests that have already been discovered, not just testing around for new things
Imagine uploading a cake recipe by accident instead.
Robots: "Hey boys, we've got ourselves a winner!"
The cake is a lie
Dope, this came out as I was about to go to bed
Where are you In the world. It's afternoon in the UK.
Lol
@@bad-bunnyblogger8171 I am a American and it is 9 and yet went to bed 4 in the morning.
Anime........lame
@@Clan_AlbertheGrey ah I see insomnia is rife across the pond also 😂
"Kids, you should study hard to become a scientist and work in a lab!"
- Couple years pass
"Alright kids, now that you can work in a lab, robots have replaced you. Bye!"
Scientists don’t just work in labs. They also interpret the results from lab experiments and decide which experiments are to be done next.
@@adambosak2306 Já vim Adame, jen trocha nadsázky. Mohl jsem to napsat lepším způsobem, ale nechce se mi už. :D
Just learn Python, kids.
@@loy7163 Nor is it going to be the last time. The flip of era/generation/technology gaps is getting shorter and shorter. People always end up being the waiting and assimilating part. AI consistently marks the human element as the ailing factor to development, a fact largely unpublished. I wonder what made me respond to you... I think its the correlation of Loy and Eloi, as in The Time Machine, morlocks and eloi? Interesting.
Yeah, that, and 22 thousand other occupations!
Better learn how to fix robots, I guess!
5:47 you know this guy knows what he is talking about when he explains machine learning in a way a kid can understand the basic idea behind it.
this is amazing. That means one person can do 100 people's job. Everyone can be a such a creative scientist.
Everytime the robot arm moves "we got another experiment guys!"
In 1971 I worked for BIOTRONICS, We had an automatic lathe machine that was programed before leaving work and would create parts until running out of stock. We have come a long way towards the future of automated science.
Ive played factorio enough to know where this is going
A communist robot uprising?
@The Communist Plaque Doctor No, an insect uprising (it's what happens in the game, but I know it's not what enderon was going for)
LO? 😂😂😂
@@aquatax24 I was kidding!
@@aquatax24 But that would be nice.
This is genius! They didn't mention how it saves lab workers from workplace hazards and accidents like the one story where the lady dropped organic mercury on her medical grade protective glove but it soaked thru and she got a lethal dose of it through her skin. and died a very delayed and slow horrible death. RIP Karen Wetterhahn.
It's always fascinating to see how humans had created things thousands of times more better,faster, and precise.
Watch the Lilly L2S2 Life Science Studio youtube video and take note of one of the main architects of the system (23 workcells in this video) and notice he is not the one talking about what is being used in this video.
What a GREAT video and project, this is clearly the direction most of that work will eventually be running in the future
I am super amazed by the fact that this is a thing.
Thanks Seeker for showing me this ongoing achievement of our kind :)
Why do robots never cry?
They have nerves of steel.
Amazing video. This just seems like the logical next step in bio research. You would just have to make very sure that no intentional or unintentional error corrupts all experiments.
This is blowing my mind.
This is minding my blow.
This is blow my minding.
Yes, I always wanted to visit a facility like this. Hopefully I will one day!
Thanks for the video! Very informative ❤
Very interesting approach. Thx for sharing 👍
High quality content, thanks!
I WORKED WITH A SYSTEM LIKE THIS WHEN WORKING IN A PARTS HOUSE IN THE 1980'S IT'S NOT NEW. OUR SYSTEM USED X Y AND Z COORDINATES TO RETRIEVE PARTS TO BE SHIPPED OR TO GO INTO THE SHOP TO BE USED BY A MECHANIC. THE GREATEST THING ABOUT IT IS IT KEEPS TRACK OF HOW MANY ITEMS ARE IN STOCK AND PRINTS OUT AN ORDER LIST. SOME SYSTEMS WILL ACTUALLY DO THE ORDERING FOR YOU. IT ACTUALLY STARTED WITH A POS, OR POINT OF SALES SYSTEM. IT IMMEDIATELY TAKES IT OUT OF INVENTORY JUST LIKE WALMART OR TARGET.ANY OF THE STORES OF TODAY THAT USES SCANNERS ARE BASICALLY USING A POS SYSTEM. I LOVE IT.
OKAY
Auwtch😎 my eyes feel shouted at😉😂
But thx for the info.👍
I work in this industry as an automation developer in the medical equipment engineering industry. It is so cool what robots can do from motion in 3d space to seeing actual color changes and other changes in liquids. It is a cool time to be alive. I advise anyone interested to get an arduino and a computer, even a raspberry pi, and learn to code the arduino to not only be able to move in x, y and z but to program and use the many sensors that are available out there. Voice control is the best in my opinion. I work with nephelometers which are some of the coolest instruments when interfaced with a robot. And it's cool having a job where you run a program and come back good later and check the results.
I can´t believe how much more reliable and precise this could become in earth sciences. This is amazing! You can´t imagine the errors that occur when making experiments with other human beings, even something so dumb like, picking up an air bobble in some vessel could turn some experiment wrong, humans make flaws. This is the future, for sure, but the countries that don´t have money to expend on services like these, will be even less competitive in terms of scientific production
Kind of like the next logical step in infrastructure as a service. I love it.
Retired professor, the future of science lies not in the labor but rather the thinking!!
I watch just about every new Seeker video that comes out, and I feel confident in saying that this is the most profound! I'm shocked that this is actually up and running. This isn't just some theory or white paper, they've actually done it! We are truly living in the 21st Century!
Amazing !! So incredible !!!
This could be very interesting since the very act of observing an experiment effects the outcome.
I have no idea what those people are talking about but this seems revolutionary
keep up the good work
well one thing is clear that coding is the future!
Yep that certainly true!!
But for who? Humans or AI?
Don't you assume AI can't make other AIs
Google already made that experiment :p
You are the best in Seeker it is nice to see you working again with them, you can do your work remotly, living in UK will you do your studies, you can work anyway with Seeker.
i can see this design idea being transferable to many industries and possibly creating new ones. if you have young kids, its definitely a good idea to get them into software development and robotics.
This is amazing. I wonder why the best camera they can use is Nest cam tho.
That is an excellent use of this tech
We do what we must because we can. Huge success.
This is Brilliant! So much human error removed. Not to mention the tedious nature of the work. I do work with fungi and there's so much room for error. You have to be so careful and it's very difficult to do everything exactly the same every time. It's impossible.
Who says we not living in future 😂😂
Thanks so much. Success
If I had this during my PhD I would have had a ton of more results. More than half my time was pipetting various solutions into vials for reactions. If I had access to a robot who could do the repetitive work for me I could focus on the much more important(and more interesting) work.
Lab work PTSD intensifies
Thats amazing.
Very interesting that a system like Stratos could run it's own hypothesis.
The researchers will actually be doing the thinking job, not all that work that tire them for the day.
It should go well for many fields of research.
I wonder how much does it shorten the time for a study, I imagine it does make it short, people may actually get ther degrees sooner.
Finally some interesting content
Awesome!
amazing!
This is actually so cool 😬
nice idea!
Oh, this is incredible!! I hope we had it in our university...
It doesn't need to be in your university, it can be anywhere in the world as long as you can afford to access it.
Ugh ikr! The hours spent mindlessly pipetting into 384-well qPCR plates and the tedious ELISAs microtiter plates 🙄 I need to talk my boss into using this platform 🤣
This is going to increase productivity like crazy
Awesome
Very cool.
Scientists : I am doing experiments, and discover new solutions.
Boss: Great I have a new solution. Now scientists discover a new solution for the problem C, and I fire half of you.
No scientist can compete with my army of scientists and robots.
Geez
Less people and more progress. Love it!
This is a nice commercial for Strateos
Think about if this is implemented. The machine will come up with an experimental hypothesis on it's own through AI, implement the experiment using machine learning to streamline the testing, interpret the results and formulate new experimental hypotheses to test. In all of this there is no need for human interference other than maybe as a maytag repairman if something breaks (until we program robots that can do it). This effectively will end humans as biologists, chemists and a whole host of other scientific pursuits. These guys are essentially cutting the branch they're sitting on. Whether or not this is a good thing is debatable.
This is great for processes and protocols that are standardised, but for synthetic chemistry workflows I’m not sure a robotic workflow would have enough flexibility to prepare, purify and characterise an especially wide range of compound
this is so cool!! thank you for the consistently amazing content
Make an automated science edX course or something like that, so we can explore lab automation! Make some virtual experiments, that use the same code as real experiments
This couldn't possibly go wrong...
I don’t know. I always (almost) enjoyed working in the lab. I liked developing the assay but got bored putting into practice (experiment after experiment). Maybe i would enjoy this.
Where's the link to The experiments site?
Seeing a lot of people claiming this will replace scientists, it won't. This is just the automation of routine experiments that we have to do in the lab everyday. A human is still needed to come up with the experiments, interpret the data, and come up with new experimental techniques. It's basically taking away the tedious parts of the job and allowing us to focus on the actual science.
I actually enjoy being in the lab and being the one moving objects... and when the results fit the expectations, I feel satisfied like I've just witnessed the birth of a baby😊
Same feeling if you hit run and your code works first time.
Build more labs and install more of these machines,... like, yesterday!
Nice
Omg I feel like this robot is gonna create its own species to wipe our own out ☠️🤣
1:54 Im just curious what computer language do scientist use?
I'm guessing python
This is very interesting, but what happens to the amazing accidental discoveries when the robot makes no mistakes?
Hi Seekers, My Dad is an Allopathy Doctor and is now at Home due to the Covid Situation. How about setting up the same infrastructure back at his clinic to treat patients remotely from home? Can this be a possibility?
“Now PhD students can be their own PIs” that’s amazing
Wow. I see this technology as able to stop "brain drain" from developing countries. As it is, some genius could grow up in the mountains of Peru, in a place where they have o travel an entire day to even reach a small city. They could use satellite internet to access a better education then their local school system provides, and even do university online, or at a top school in Lima. But once they become a scientist doing research, they would need to stay in Lima or go to a city which has even more laboratory facilities most likely. But with this technology, feasibly they could still live in their home town, taking care of their aging mother and raising kids with their highschool sweetheart, all while also running studies on an experimental renal disease drug they imagined. This means that this small village in the mountains now has a working world-class scientist in it, as an example for all the children there to see every day and know "I have endless possibilities". It brings money directly to their community, not just in the form of sending money back to family, which lifts the whole community. Technology like this could literally be life-changing and community-changing in developing nations.
Except you still need to pay for access and materials. Plus there is a hell of a lot more to being a scientist than just getting in the lab.
Did you watch the video?
@@Neokretai You're completely missing the point. Skills can be learned online, money transferred online, and jobs acquired online. Now, labs can be accessed online as well. The last aspect constraining people with these skills to particular locations is now gone.
The other requirements to use these remote labs are irrelevant (skills, funding, etc) because those requirements also apply for traditional labs - except to an even greater degree.
Remote labs brings geographical freedom, automated efficiencies (so lower costs), and on demand access to anyone. That drastically changes the accessibility of this industry for many people all around the world.
Neokretai Of course you need to pay. But why would are you assuming a scientist in a developing country would have less ability to do that than other scientists? Most likely they would be employed by a company to work remotely, or they would be doing independent research funded by a grant, as these are the two ways most research is funded. Funding really has nothing to do with anything that I spoke about in regards to this technology preventing brain drain.
This is very cool don't get me wrong, but human mistakes during experiments have produced some very essential tools!
I can imagine a industry tycoon setting a lab of such kind of thier own, but not a public cloud lab, for that there is still the problem of secrecy of IP.
2025 Congratulations arm 27B you won this years Nobel prize for outstanding dedication to drug research.
3:58 inflation maybe? Is there a possibilitythat this sector became bloated and money is not spent in a way that maximizes results? Also, why spending global but approved only in US? This IMO absolves this chart of any statistical value.
Cool! It's like in a game when you wait for the research points to slowly increase
Robot: " Drink bleach will kill the virus "
Trump: " I"ll take two shots "
Do these automated labs do mass spectrometry?
I'm just finishing my chemistry bachelors. I would love a masters or certificate programs in this technology.
Maybe spacex will buy stations to send along on colonization missions.
this is good sciens, takes human error out of the possibilities beyond the code.
So now you have robots with memory, computers to allocate that memory and even some neural networks that can make memories more human-like.
At what point though do you have the robot able to say: "I don't have the precise memory I need to do the task, here are the specs for the memory I will need, and here are the specs for how I will need to be rewired in order to run that memory as an efficient program."?
At the start I thought I accidentally clicked on a asmr video 😂
We need more science
Cool
Welcome to the aperture science enrichment center.
I hope this laboratory doesn't have any neurotoxin gas laying around
Anyone else ever watched a lab machine run with the wrong volumes because of a faulty sensor?
doctor: “Here’s a prescription”
me” “What does it do?”
doctor: “I don’t know, but the robot said it would help.”
Scientific advancement will continue accelerating. It's amazing. The next ten years will be extremely exciting. A cure for aging is close
I could only wish.
@Rock Stone exactly, altough im not very confident in the rest of things you said.
@Rock Stone No. That's illogical, by the time we find a cure for aging we will also be a multi-plantery specie, so, there's no problem with resources. More people more workers which is an essential thing for big companies, also, more people means more consumantion for that "cure" which is in Big Pharma benefits. I understand your thoughts on Bill's plan , but, that's in the meantime.
This is not a good thing to happen
If something goes wrong, who do you hold responsible? The machine or the company?
So they haven't found their secret lab of human Killing machines.
yeah, misleading title.... robots are running our experiments not theirs
duh ! hospitals !!!
Yeah. And the dentist too!
It's cool but also very scary