National Geographic News, Reporting Your World Daily

Monday, November 23, 2009

Photo: First Robot Scientist Makes Gene Discovery


Email to a Friend	<< Back to Full Story

A robot called ADAM can hypothesize, conduct experiments, and plan next steps without human input, researcher Ross King (left) and colleagues announced in April 2009.

ADAM is the first—but maybe not the last—robot to make a new scientific discovery.

Photograph courtesy Arthur Dafis, Aberystwyth University