Adam (robot)

Adam is a robot scientist or laboratory robot created and developed by the Computational Biology research group at Aberystwyth University.[1][2][3][4] As a prototype for a "robot scientist", Adam is able to perform independent experiments to test hypotheses and interpret findings without human guidance.[5] While researching yeast-based functional genomics, Adam became the first machine in history to have discovered new scientific knowledge independently of its human creators;[6][7][8] Adam's research studied baker's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae)[9] and is one of two robot scientists working at Aberystwyth University along with "Eve", a robot currently doing research on drug screening.

The most significant scientific paper on robot scientist was published in 2004 in the journal Nature by Ross King, Kenneth Whelan, Ffion Jones, Philip Reiser, Christopher Bryant, Stephen Muggleton, Douglas Kell and Steve Oliver.[9]

References

  1. ^ "Official Robot Scientist page at Aberystwyth University". http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/cs/research/cb/projects/robotscientist/. Retrieved 27th June 2011. 
  2. ^ Sparkes, A.; Aubrey, W.; Byrne, E.; Clare, A.; Khan, M. N.; Liakata, M.; Markham, M.; Rowland, J. et al. (2010). "Towards Robot Scientists for autonomous scientific discovery". Automated Experimentation 2: 1. doi:10.1186/1759-4499-2-1. PMC 2813846. PMID 20119518. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?tool=pmcentrez&artid=2813846.  edit
  3. ^ King, R. D.; Rowland, J.; Oliver, S. G.; Young, M.; Aubrey, W.; Byrne, E.; Liakata, M.; Markham, M. et al. (2009). "Make Way for Robot Scientists". Science 325 (5943): 945–945. Bibcode 2009Sci...325R.945K. doi:10.1126/science.325_945a. PMID 19696334.  edit
  4. ^ Anderson, P. W.; Abrahams, E. (2009). "Machines Fall Short of Revolutionary Science". Science 324 (5934): 1515–1516. Bibcode 2009Sci...324.1515A. doi:10.1126/science.324_1515c. PMID 19541975.  edit
  5. ^ Greenemeier, Larry (2009-04-02). "Meet Adam and Eve: AI Lab-Bots That Can Take On Reams of Data". Technology (Scientific American). http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=robots-adam-and-eve-ai. Retrieved 2009-04-02. 
  6. ^ Pir, P. (2009). "The Robot Scientist Adam". Computer: 46 - 54. doi:10.1109/MC.2009.270.  edit
  7. ^ King, R. D.; Rowland, J.; Oliver, S. G.; Young, M.; Aubrey, W.; Byrne, E.; Liakata, M.; Markham, M. et al. (2009). "The Automation of Science". Science 324 (5923): 85–89. Bibcode 2009Sci...324...85K. doi:10.1126/science.1165620. PMID 19342587.  edit
  8. ^ Robot achieves scientific first, Financial Times, April 2, 2009
  9. ^ a b King, R. D.; Whelan, K. E.; Jones, F. M.; Reiser, P. G. K.; Bryant, C. H.; Muggleton, S. H.; Kell, D. B.; Oliver, S. G. (2004). "Functional genomic hypothesis generation and experimentation by a robot scientist". Nature 427 (6971): 247–252. doi:10.1038/nature02236. PMID 14724639.  edit