{"id":239271,"date":"2026-06-18T19:08:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T00:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/kill-the-bench"},"modified":"2026-06-18T19:08:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T00:08:12","slug":"kill-the-bench","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/06\/kill-the-bench","title":{"rendered":"Kill the bench"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/kill-the-bench.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Drawing from historical examples, Carmen Kivisild puts forth a bold vision for why wet lab automation is the future of biology. I\u2019ve had similar hopes\/thoughts for how biology will progress and I greatly enjoyed how this essay put words to these concepts.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Like Grace Hopper killed the punch card. The story of how \u201cscientist\u201d gets redefined.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drawing from historical examples, Carmen Kivisild puts forth a bold vision for why wet lab automation is the future of biology. I\u2019ve had similar hopes\/thoughts for how biology will progress and I greatly enjoyed how this essay put words to these concepts. Like Grace Hopper killed the punch card. The story of how \u201cscientist\u201d gets [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":636,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239271","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\/636"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}