Lecture
How can we democratize laboratory automation to achieve the dark lab?
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- ICM Saal 3
- Type: Lecture
Lecture description
The vision of the “dark lab” is to create a laboratory with minimal human intervention. Until now, this goal seems to be achievable only with significant financial, personnel, and material resources, making it inaccessible to smaller laboratories, universities, and academic research institutions.
However, new developments in digitalization and automation now make laboratory automation accessible to everyone. Key game-changers include cost-effective collaborative robots for simple automation, software solutions based on drag-and-drop low-code programming, and the increasing prevalence of open standards for direct device integration.
This presentation will compare various approaches to laboratory automation that do not require deep programming or engineering knowledge, using practical examples to demonstrate how the democratization of laboratory automation can enhance efficiency, accessibility, and innovation in research, bringing light to the “dark lab”.
However, new developments in digitalization and automation now make laboratory automation accessible to everyone. Key game-changers include cost-effective collaborative robots for simple automation, software solutions based on drag-and-drop low-code programming, and the increasing prevalence of open standards for direct device integration.
This presentation will compare various approaches to laboratory automation that do not require deep programming or engineering knowledge, using practical examples to demonstrate how the democratization of laboratory automation can enhance efficiency, accessibility, and innovation in research, bringing light to the “dark lab”.
