As your sales rep for US Lab Robotics Inc., here's an update about our most recent models. We've come a long way since UK researchers built the first science robot. In hindsight, that first model was rather primitive. To quote its designers, it "automatically originates hypotheses to explain observations, devises experiments to test these hypotheses, physically runs the experiments using a laboratory robot, interprets the results to falsify hypotheses inconsistent with the data, and then repeats the cycle."1
Of course, most scientists don't want robots to do their bench work, they want them to complete all the other tasks in their lives. And we bumbled when we introduced our misguided Postdocatroid, which didn't sell well because most PIs already treat their postdocs like automatons. But we've learned our lessons and improved our product offerings. We've built several best-selling lines of science robots, and we're leading the market in almost every ...
