{"id":77739,"date":"2018-04-12T07:22:29","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T14:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/darpa-awards-ginkgo-bioworks-and-transcriptic-9-5m-to-bring-ai-into-the-lab"},"modified":"2018-04-12T07:22:29","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T14:22:29","slug":"darpa-awards-ginkgo-bioworks-and-transcriptic-9-5m-to-bring-ai-into-the-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/darpa-awards-ginkgo-bioworks-and-transcriptic-9-5m-to-bring-ai-into-the-lab","title":{"rendered":"DARPA Awards Ginkgo Bioworks and Transcriptic $9.5M to Bring AI into the Lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/darpa-awards-ginkgo-bioworks-and-transcriptic-9-5m-to-bring-ai-into-the-lab.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The industry partners will use the money to train artificially intelligent laboratory robots.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Many people assume that when robots enter the economy, they\u2019ll snatch low-skilled jobs. But don\u2019t let a PhD fool you \u2014 AI-powered robots will soon impact a laboratory near you.<\/p>\n<p>The days of pipetting liquids around were already numbered. Companies like Transcriptic, based in Menlo Park, California, now offer automated molecular biology lab work, from routine PCR to more complicated preclinical assays. Customers can buy time on their \u2018robotic cloud lab\u2019 using any laptop and access the results in a web app.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/synbiobeta.com\/darpa-awards-ginkgo-bioworks-and-transcriptic\/?utm_content=buffer9bca3&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer\">https:\/\/synbiobeta.com\/darpa-awards-ginkgo-bioworks-and-tran...ign=buffer<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The industry partners will use the money to train artificially intelligent laboratory robots. Many people assume that when robots enter the economy, they\u2019ll snatch low-skilled jobs. But don\u2019t let a PhD fool you \u2014 AI-powered robots will soon impact a laboratory near you. The days of pipetting liquids around were already numbered. Companies like Transcriptic, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":354,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,39,1878,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-economics","category-employment","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77739","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\/354"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77739"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77739\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}