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Automated catalyst testing uses two coordinated robots, cutting 32 days of work to 17 hours (phys.org)
submitted 1 day ago by artifex@piefed.social to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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.

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[–] over_clox@lemmy.world -5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yay, more lost jobs for humans!

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

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

[–] artifex@piefed.social 14 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Admittedly, we were not very good at this particular job.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago

yeah this is a bit like the automating of mapping the genome which was a good thing.

[–] over_clox@lemmy.world -5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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?...

[–] one_old_coder@piefed.social 1 points 4 hours ago

I hate AI as it is, but those robots can have precision up to a few nanometers, which humans will never be able to do. Those machines are not replacing anything here.

[–] Ikon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

Honestly its not like were doing the greatest job rn, why not let the clankers have a run

[–] My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

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.