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popalchemisttoday at 6:04 PM1 replyview on HN

With humanoid robots, a large chunk of what would otherwise be highly expensive to automate becomes possible. "ALL" science may not be automatable. But lots will be.


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fn-motetoday at 7:10 PM

Absurd. The scientific apparatus is already automated. What are you going to do, have your humanoid robot do the pipetting when there is already a specialized machine that fills trays of 100 samples every 5 seconds? (Totally made up example.)

There might be a way to phrase the future as a tradeoff of capital expenditures; at least that argument would be worth reading about.

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