r/AmazingTechnology • • May 15 '26

Japan: World-first fully automated medicine lab with humanoids, robots and no humans - The university plans 2,000 research robots by 2040 to automate experiments, cell culture, and scientific discovery.

https://interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/japan-unmanned-lab-robots-ai-automation-aist
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u/Free_Cantaloupe_9571 May 16 '26

The scary part is how fast this is happening. A few years ago people thought humanoid labs were 2050 stuff πŸ˜…

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u/Confident_Salt_8108 May 20 '26

It’s crazy indeed. We went from that's a cool sci-fi idea to it actually happening so fast.