• Question: who is working on a Robot Scientist? what would it do?

    Asked by lozzc to Darren, Deuan, Duncan, Lori-An, Michelle on 16 Jun 2010 in Categories: .
    • Photo: Lori-An Etherington

      Lori-An Etherington answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      Apparently in 2009 a group of scientist from Aberystwyth University and the University of Cambridge made a ‘Robot scientist’ which can ‘carry out scientific research automatically, without the need for further human intervention’. I’m not sure exactly what it does though. In all areas of science there is more technology being made which makes human input less for certain processes. Hopefully there will still be work for us to do in the future! 🙂 Someone still has to think of ideas to research. Hope this answer has been of some use.

    • Photo: Duncan Hull

      Duncan Hull answered on 15 Jun 2010:

      I’ve been working on robot scientist and I’m interested in this research.

      A basic robot scientist would perform all of the boring and repetitive experiments that a scientist need to do for their job.

      A really clever robot scientist would understand what it was doing, and being able to ask new questions and suggest experiments that could be done to test new ideas.

      There are a group of people in the UK working on this, and their work has been reported in the news see http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3392751.stm

    • Photo: Michelle Hudson-Shore

      Michelle Hudson-Shore answered on 16 Jun 2010:

      Not me but I’m interested in hearing the answer to this.

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