Nick Lynch, consultant at The Pistoia Alliance discusses how technology, including artificial intelligence (AI), can help automate the lab and accelerate outcomes.
Automation
Our world has undergone a dramatic shift in the past few decades as technology has developed and digitisation continues apace. However, for the past 20 years, the lab has looked largely the same, even though in that time, how scientists and researchers work and live has changed dramatically. Now, life science companies are seeking ways to modernise research environments and build the ‘Lab of The Future’ (LoTF). Given advances made in recent years, it’s natural that technology that can automate lab functions – including Artificial Intelligence (AI) – will play an important role in this modernisation drive.