How Automated can a laboratory be?

Abstract

TO SURVEY the now instrumental techniques coming on the market is to bring homo the fact that the laboratory is gradually becoming automated. The human element is being reduced steadily and methodically, which is, in effect, a reflex action of the activity of the scientist. He thinks up a way of doing a job on the laboratory bench with an instrument or machine and thereby reduces his own manual role. There is, however, a yet more significant development taking place: electronics are moving nearer towards chemistry, and mechanical engineering is serving as a bonding agent or cement.

Citation

(1963), "How Automated can a laboratory be?", Industrial Lubrication and Tribology, Vol. 15 No. 9, pp. 22-23. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb052736