A new slave for the scientists

Formulating hypotheses, design experiments, and interpret results is a work for a robot scientist.

British scientists have created a marvel toy for scientists. A robotic doctoral student set to do all those repeated and boring tasks in the scientific process. In a rather dull apparatus; a liquid-handling machine networked to several computers—but packed with sophisticated robotics and advanced AI software.

This is surely the dawn of scientists-to-be and doctoral students...