Thanks to new technologies like artificial intelligence, scientists are increasingly freed from the constraints of the laboratory. It raises questions about how much humans should outsource to robots.

Researchers hope to build a facility with thousands of robots capable of performing experiments independently by 2040.

Editor’s Note: This is part of a series called Inside the Lab, which gives audiences a first-hand look at the research laboratories at the University of Chicago and the scholars who are tackling some ...

Lisa Bates, a medical technologist see seen through the window of a PCR analysis machine in the PCR testing lab at Quest Diagnostics on February 9, 2022 in Indianapolis, Indiana. The lab is capable of ...

One might expect a hospital’s clinical lab to look like a high school chemistry classroom on steroids, with complex, sterile-looking machines that analyze blood and other specimens and people in white ...

Scientists and engineers at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory plan to speed up the process of designing, testing and optimizing new metal-alloy components for defense industry ...

Motiv – which will be branded Rocket Lab Robotics – is renowned for its advanced multi-degree of freedom robotic arms, actuators, and drive electronics that have enabled some of the most ambitious ...

Launch services company Rocket Lab is buying Motiv Space Systems, a company specialising in space robotics, motion control systems, and precision mechanisms for spacecraft. Keep up with developments ...