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AI agents run this automated biology lab that sequences DNA and more
Self-driving lab in China requires only a simple prompt to encode messages in DNA and read them out.
To say that someone has ‘good hands’ is high praise in a molecular biology laboratory, where researchers must deftly handle delicate glassware, pipette samples and more. But in an unusual genetics lab at Shanghai Jiao Tong University in China, a team of robots driven by artificial intelligence is designing and doing experiments with no hands to speak of.
The facility, described today 1 in Nature , is one of the latest steps towards ‘self-driving’ labs that are guided by AI , with minimal input from human scientists. With samples moved around by robotic arms, the Shanghai lab can operate more than 20 types of instrument, complete thousands of operations in a single project and do experiments that involve synthesizing and sequencing DNA, among other tasks.
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