Submitted 1 day ago by artifex@piefed.social to technology@lemmy.world
https://phys.org/news/2026-02-automated-catalyst-robots-days-hours.html
Automated catalyst testing uses two coordinated robots, cutting 32 days of work to 17 hours
Developing new catalysts requires large-scale, repetitive experiments with frequent changes to catalyst composition and reaction conditions. Manual experiments are time-consuming and error prone. A team has automated this process and significantly increased reproducibility by employing robots to manage reagent compositions and run the repeated tests.
Yay, more lost jobs for humans!
Admittedly, we were not very good at this particular job.
yeah this is a bit like the automating of mapping the genome which was a good thing.
They’re only catalyzing and speeding up the demise of humans. Thanks for supporting the cause, cuz who needs humans anyways when the robots take over everything?..
It’s just scut work, and needs direction from humans
Software engineering has already gone through a similar transformation where we expect all the builds, scans, tests to be automated, the scut work done by “robots”. That resulted in new job types, DevOps engineers, and the software field has continued to grow. While it remains to be seen how ai will affect the field, automating the scut work allowed the humans to be more productive, the field to continue growing, software to be better quality
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 1 day ago
This is proper use of robots. Repetitive work that is error-prone for humans to do.
Also, notice the robot is not in a human form, because it doesn’t need all of that overhead.
Wander@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
The majority of work that can be done by simple arm robots has been replaced with simple arm robots.
The humanoid robots are not going to fulfill that niche.
Blemgo@lemmy.world 20 hours ago
Then what niche will they fulfill? What work requires a humanoid form?