Heuristics for lab robotics, and where its future may go

Note: this article required conversations with a lot of people. A (hopefully) exhaustive, randomized list of everyone whose thoughts contributed to the article: Lachlan Munroe (Head of Automation at DTU Biosustain ), Max Hodak (CEO of Science, former founder of Transcriptic ), D.J. Kleinbaum (CEO of Emerald Cloud Labs ), Keoni Gandall (former founder of Trilobio ), Cristian Ponce (CEO of Tetsuwan Scientific ), Brontë Kolar (CEO of Zeon Systems ), Jason Kelly (CEO of Ginkgo Bioworks ), Jun Axup Penman (COO of E11 Bio ), Nish Bhat (current VC, ex- Color cofounder), Amulya Garimella (MIT PhD student), Shelby Newsad (VC at Compound ), Michelle Lee (CEO of Medra ), Charles Yang (Fellow at Renaissance Philanthropy ), Chase Armer (Columbia PhD student), Ben Ray (current founder, ex- Retro Biosci…