Robot scientists: From Adam to Eve to Genesis

Abstract

This essay addresses the concept of the robot scientist, a technology that combines robotics with artificial intelligence (AI) to automate the scientific process. It traces the origins, enabling technologies and possible future directions for robot scientists, as well as the potential impact in advancing science and health care via their use in the biopharmaceutical industry. In identifying key trends, it makes recommendations for continued investment in the development of both AI and robotics and their interface across the medium to long term; incentives to develop and adopt interoperability standards and ontologies to support exchange and collaboration via open science; increased opportunities for collaboration between disciplines, including skills development; and international support for broad initiatives such as the Nobel Turing Challenge that can galvanise and inspire researchers, and even the general public.

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