Robot Scientist Explained

Robot Scientist
Type:Scientific Research
Owner:Ross King
Date Of Establishment:2004
Funding:EPSRC
BBSRC[1] [2] [3]

Robot Scientist (also known as Adam) is a laboratory robot created and developed by a group of scientists including Ross King, Kenneth Whelan, Ffion Jones, Philip Reiser, Christopher Bryant, Stephen Muggleton, Douglas Kell, Emma Byrne and Steve Oliver.[4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

Prototype

As a prototype for a "robot scientist", Adam is able to perform independent experiments to test hypotheses and interpret findings without human guidance, removing some of the drudgery of laboratory experimentation.[9] [10] Adam is capable of:

While researching yeast-based functional genomics, Adam became the first machine in history to have discovered new scientific knowledge independently of its human creators.[15] [16] [17]

Adam and Eve

Adam's research studied baker's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae)[18] and is one of two robot scientists along with "Eve"[11] [19] (named after Adam and Eve), a robot currently doing research on drug screening.[20] [21] [22] [23] [24] Eve has been used for semi-automated testing for reproducibility of experimental cancer research.[25] [26]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2 April 2009 – Robot scientist becomes first machine to discover new scientific knowledge – Media release – BBSRC . 14 May 2013. dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130514063142/http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/news/archive/2009/090402-pr-robot-scientist.aspx.
  2. http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/project/2FC77EA2-3AFE-43A1-95DB-B07F7DA4CC2F BBSRC grant A robot scientist for drug design and chemical genetics
  3. http://gtr.rcuk.ac.uk/project/D31F0498-1B91-441A-8FED-0151CA42E9F1 BBSRC grant: A robot scientist for yeast systems biology
  4. Web site: Robot Scientist at Aberystwyth University . 12 June 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110612012731/http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/cs/research/cb/projects/robotscientist. live.
  5. Sparkes . A. . Aubrey . W. . Byrne . E. . Emma Byrne (author). Clare . A. . Khan . M. N. . Liakata . M. . Markham . M. . Rowland . J. . Soldatova . L. N. . Whelan . K. E. . Young . M. . King . R. D. . Towards Robot Scientists for autonomous scientific discovery . 10.1186/1759-4499-2-1 . Automated Experimentation . 2 . 1 . 2010 . 20119518 . 2813846 . free .
  6. King . R. D. . Ross D. King. Rowland . J. . Oliver . S. G. . Stephen Oliver (scientist). Young . M. . Aubrey . W. . Byrne . E. . Emma Byrne (author). Liakata . M. . Markham . M. . Pir . P. . Soldatova . 10.1126/science.325_945a . L. N. . Sparkes . A. . Whelan . K. E. . Clare . A. . Make Way for Robot Scientists . Science . 325 . 5943 . 945 . 2009 . 19696334 . 2009Sci...325R.945K .
  7. Anderson . Philip W.. Philip Warren Anderson . Abrahams . Elihu. 10.1126/science.324_1515c . Machines Fall Short of Revolutionary Science . Science . 324 . 5934 . 1515–1516 . 2009 . 19541975 . 2009Sci...324.1515A .
  8. King . R. D. . Ross D. King. 10.1038/scientificamerican0111-72 . 21265330 . Rise of the Robo Scientists . Scientific American . 304 . 1 . 72–76 . 2011 . 2011SciAm.304a..72K .
  9. Mosher . Dave . Developer of Robot Scientist Wants to Standardize Science . . 13 April 2011.
  10. Buchen . Lizzie . Robot Makes Scientific Discovery All by Itself . . 2 April 2009.
  11. Wilson . N. . Technology: A robot scientist . 10.1038/nrg1300 . Nature Reviews Genetics . 5 . 3 . 164 . 2004 . 5633301 . free .
  12. Greenemeier . Larry . Meet Adam and Eve: AI Lab-Bots That Can Take On Reams of Data . . 2009 . 2 April 2009.
  13. News: Kleiner . Kurt . Robot scientist makes discoveries without human help . . 2009 .
  14. News: Gill . Victoria . Robo-scientist's first findings . . 2 April 2009.
  15. King. Rowland . J. . Aubrey . W.. Liakata . M.. Markham . M.. Soldatova . L. N.. Whelan . K. E. . Clare . A. . Young . M. . Sparkes . A. . Oliver . S. G. . Pir . P.. The Robot Scientist Adam. 2009. Computer . 42 . 7. 46–54 . 10.1109/MC.2009.270 . P. . 13920692 .
  16. King . R. D. . Ross D. King. Rowland . J. . Oliver . S. G. . Stephen Oliver (scientist). Young . M. . Aubrey . W. . Byrne . E. . Emma Byrne (author). Liakata . M. . Markham . M. . Pir . P. . Soldatova . 10.1126/science.1165620 . L. N. . Sparkes . A. . Whelan . K. E. . Clare . A. . The Automation of Science . Science . 324 . 5923 . 85–89 . 2009 . 19342587 . 2009Sci...324...85K . 14948753 .
  17. News: Cookson . Clive . Robot achieves scientific first . . 2009 .
  18. King . R. D. . Ross D. King. Whelan . K. E. . Jones . F. M. . Reiser . P. G. K. . Bryant . C. H. . Muggleton . S. H. . Stephen Muggleton. Kell . D. B. . Douglas Kell. Oliver . S. G.. Stephen Oliver (scientist) . 10.1038/nature02236 . Functional genomic hypothesis generation and experimentation by a robot scientist . Nature . 427 . 6971 . 247–252 . 2004 . 14724639 . 2004Natur.427..247K . 4428725 .
  19. 10.1098/rsif.2014.1289. 25652463. 4345494. Cheaper faster drug development validated by the repositioning of drugs against neglected tropical diseases. Journal of the Royal Society Interface. 12. 104. 20141289. 2015. Williams . K.. Bilsland . E.. Sparkes . A.. Aubrey . W.. Young . M.. Soldatova . L. N.. De Grave . K.. Ramon . J.. De Clare . M.. Sirawaraporn . W.. Oliver . S. G.. King . R. D..
  20. http://www.voanews.com/content/robot-scientist-helps-design-new-drugs/2629358.html Robot Scientist Helps Design New Drugs
  21. http://www.kurzweilai.net/robot-scientist-eve-could-speed-up-search-for-new-drugs Robot scientist’ Eve could speed up search for new drugs
  22. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-31124843 'Robot scientist' holds key to new drugs
  23. http://news.sky.com/story/1420793/robot-scientist-could-speed-up-drug-discovery 'Robot Scientist' Could Speed Up Drug Discovery
  24. https://uk.news.yahoo.com/robot-could-speed-discovery-drugs-024014876.html 'Robot Scientist' Could Speed Up Drug Discovery
  25. News: 'Robot scientist' Eve finds that less than one-third of scientific results are reproducible . 15 May 2022 . . en.
  26. Roper . Katherine . Abdel-Rehim . A. . Hubbard . Sonya . Carpenter . Martin . Rzhetsky . Andrey . Soldatova . Larisa . King . Ross D. . Testing the reproducibility and robustness of the cancer biology literature by robot . Journal of the Royal Society Interface . 2022 . 19 . 189 . 20210821 . 10.1098/rsif.2021.0821. 35382578 . 8984295 .

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