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YeGoblynQueennelast Thursday at 8:22 PM0 repliesview on HN

It's cool, no doubt. But keep in mind this is 20 years late:

  As a prototype for a "robot scientist", Adam is able to perform independent
  experiments to test hypotheses and interpret findings without human guidance,
  removing some of the drudgery of laboratory experimentation.[11][12] Adam is
  capable of:
  
      * hypothesizing to explain observations
      * devising experiments to test these hypotheses
      * physically running the experiments using laboratory robotics
      * interpreting the results from the experiments
      * repeating the cycle as required[10][13][14][15][16]
  
  While researching yeast-based functional genomics, Adam became the first
  machine in history to have discovered new scientific knowledge independently of
  its human creators.[5][17][18] 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robot_Scientist