The world's first self-thought robot was born

The world's robotics technology has achieved a remarkable turning point when the first self-thought robot has just arrived. And as to impress in the first launch, this robot has solved a scientific problem that researchers have not been able to conquer for decades.

Steel guy Adam

The robot mentioned above is called Adam by scientists at Aberystwyth University, UK. Named the first man following the Christian concept, this robot does not have the elegant appearance of a human. Instead, it is a supercomputer with the size of a truck.

Although not yet in the form of serenity, Adam's robot has been able to operate scientifically as human partners

The first thinking robot model costs $ 1 million. Robots are equipped with machine arms to perform many scientific studies that are only carried out by humans. Robots can carry out 1,000 scientific experiments a day over a period of 5 consecutive days.

Adam Ross, the project leader, said that the robot has the preeminent characteristics of machinery as it can conduct a large number of repeated tests without feeling boredom or distracting like humans. In addition, Adam's preeminent software suite allows it to create hypotheses, then conduct studies to test whether the hypothesis is true or false and then draw scientific conclusions.

Achievement of machinery

To test Adam's ability, the researchers gave this robot the task of studying the bread yeast genome, a simple bacterium that is often used to model more complex biological systems. First, Adam equips the information that mankind has known about this yeast. Based on that, Adam quickly entered by creating and studying 20 different hypotheses about yeast bacterial genes and conducting many experiments to consider hypotheses.

Adam explored the role of genes by observing the growth of yeast cells. It uses information related to the activity of the identified genes to predict the role of the gene that has not been determined. It then removed an unidentified gene and observed the development of yeast to evaluate the role of this gene.

Based on the above measure, Adam has identified 12 types of genes responsible for controlling enzymes involved in the metabolism of yeast. Among these are one gene that controls enzymes that produce lysine, an important amino acid related to growth. Surprisingly, human scientists have been searching for this gene since the 1960s, but it is impossible to determine where they are in yeast cells. Using independent experiments, King and his colleagues confirmed Adam's results and thereby officially recognized this was the first scientific achievement created by a robot.

Do machines replace humans?

Pham Duc, a researcher at the Engineering Center at Cardiff University, rated robotics scientists like Adam as a "smart application" related to robotics and computer software technology. But he warned robots were just like an assistant instead of a real scientist. "It will take a long time before computers can replace human scientists."

Professor King agrees with the idea that robots will not replace humans. "While robots are better at coordinating thousands of experiments, people are better at looking at the big picture and planning for general experiments," he said. Not to mention the costly construction of Adam: 'If you spend all the money we spend on Adam to use human biologists, you will see that Adam is not an option. saving ' . But he thinks it is only the beginning and the investment for Adam will bring long-term benefits.

According to King, in the next 10-20 years, people will work next to machines. At that time, human scientists will have more time to do complex experiments while machines perform simpler experiments, but in larger numbers and will obviously be more effective than humans. . He also points out that robot partners have many advantages, such as the ability to interpret scientific studies in a clearer and more logical way than humans. 'Human language, with its accompanying nuances, may not be the best way to interpret the scientific results'.

Now King and his colleagues are studying the development of Eve, another modern research robot more than Adam. Eve's role is to consider finding new drugs that can cure diseases like malaria, helminths and many other diseases.