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Teeverlast Wednesday at 6:04 PM3 repliesview on HN

It sounds like you're suggesting that we need machines that mass produce things like automated pipetting machines and the robots that glue those sorts of machines together.


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11101010001100last Wednesday at 6:10 PM

This exists, but does not require AI, so there is no hype.

dekhnlast Wednesday at 7:19 PM

Replacing a skilled technician is remarkably challenging. Often times, when you automate this, you just end up wasting a ton of resources rather than accelerating discovery. Often, simply integrating devices from several vendors (or even one vendor) takes months.

shpongledlast Wednesday at 6:15 PM

They already exist, and we use them. They are not cheap though!

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