{"id":109774,"date":"2020-07-10T12:08:22","date_gmt":"2020-07-10T19:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/robot-scientist-discovers-a-new-catalyst"},"modified":"2020-07-10T12:08:22","modified_gmt":"2020-07-10T19:08:22","slug":"robot-scientist-discovers-a-new-catalyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/robot-scientist-discovers-a-new-catalyst","title":{"rendered":"Robot scientist discovers a new catalyst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/robot-scientist-discovers-a-new-catalyst.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The robot seen here can work almost 24\u20137, carrying out experiments by itself. The automated scientist \u2013 the first of its kind \u2013 can make its own decisions about which chemistry experiments to perform next, and has already discovered a new catalyst.<\/p>\n<p>With humanoid dimensions, and working in a standard laboratory, it uses instruments much like a human does. Unlike a real person, however, this 400 kg robot has infinite patience, and works for 21.5 hours each day, pausing only to recharge its battery.<\/p>\n<p>This new technology \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-020-2442-2\" target=\"_blank\">reported in the journal <em>Nature<\/em><\/a> and featured on the front cover \u2013 is designed to tackle problems of a scale and complexity that are currently beyond our grasp. New drug formulations could be autonomously discovered, for example, by searching vast and unexplored chemical spaces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The robot seen here can work almost 24\u20137, carrying out experiments by itself. The automated scientist \u2013 the first of its kind \u2013 can make its own decisions about which chemistry experiments to perform next, and has already discovered a new catalyst. With humanoid dimensions, and working in a standard laboratory, it uses instruments much [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":566,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-109774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-chemistry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109774","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/566"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109774\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}