Scientists are teaching AI-powered robots to run lab experiments

Reshma Shetty, co-founder and COO of Ginkgo Bioworks, walks through an autonomous lab where AI robots replace lab benches. Shetty says using AI has already fundamentally changed the way she practices science. "The really wild moment was the first time I saw a lab notebook entry written by the model," she says. Jodi Hilton for NPR hide caption toggle caption Jodi Hilton for NPR Nearly two decades ago, four graduate students from MIT united around a shared idea. "We believed that programming cells would ultimately be more important than programming computers," says Jason Kelly. Want the latest stories on the science of healthy living?