This Robot Took 1 Week To Made A Discovery That Would Take Human Months

With technological advancement and the endless creativity of humans, robots are getting more and more sophisticated. As a result, they are joining in more areas of our lives than ever, from simple household tasks to complex assisting jobs at hospitals during the COVID-19 pandemic.

And now, a team of scientists in the US has developed a robot chemist that can work 1000 times faster than human chemists. This will help accelerate scientific research by helping researchers doing some tasks while they focus on more important ones.

Some people may think that such robots will steal jobs from people around the work. That is not entirely true, robots may also give humans more free time so that people can take on more challenging, diverse, exciting roles that were previously set aside because they had to do required daily tasks.

Now, robots will not only take over those daily tasks but they can also work for longer hours without taking a break or getting bored.

The new robot, created by the University of Liverpool, doesn’t need a face. It uses touch feedback and laser scans to navigate. It features an arm that operates precisely, smoothly, and don’t pose any risks of mishaps that can happen with humans.

Even better, the robot is designed with a similar size to an actual human, meaning no changes are needed in the lab infrastructure. It can work continuously for 20 hours.

With such a working speed and duration, the robot has already helped human scientists discover a new photocatalyst within a week, which would have taken humans months. The robot was able to do this by going through 98 million distinct possible experiments. The newly found catalyst is 6 times more reactive than previously discovered ones.

According to the study’s lead researcher Andrew Cooper, these robots will not take over humans’ jobs, but rather assist them and act as collaborative partners in the lab.

In the next step, the scientists will add voice recognition to this robot to allow for communication between human and robotic scientists. Cooper expects this will done in the next 18 months.

With all these developments in the robot industry, we have high hope that scientific fields will be boosted and there will be more discoveries made. Maybe we will even be able to test and come up with a COVID-19 vaccine or cure 1000 times faster than now.

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