Robots are learning to do the jobs of human factory workers, bus drivers, burger flippers, butlers, and healthcare workers, among many others – and now, they may be coming for scientists as well.

Opentrons, a leader in lab automation, announces the launch of its Opentrons Flex robot, a new generation of affordable and easy-to-program liquid-handling lab robots designed to level the playing ...

Dr. Benji Maruyama is the Air Force Research Laboratory team lead for Autonomous Materials and the Autonomous Research System also known as ARES. ARES OS, an open-source software program, is now ...

To those well-acquainted with lab work, the tedium of benchwork is all too familiar. From precise pipetting to meticulous experiment setup and data handling, scientists invest countless hours in ...

is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. Researchers have developed what they say is a breakthrough robotic lab assistant, able to move around a ...