{"id":227012,"date":"2026-03-24T07:51:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T11:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/inside-the-autonomous-lab-where-ai-and-robotics-meet\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T08:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T12:00:17","slug":"inside-the-autonomous-lab-where-ai-and-robotics-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/24\/inside-the-autonomous-lab-where-ai-and-robotics-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Autonomous Lab: Where AI and Robotics Meet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologynetworks.com\/tn\/blog\/inside-the-autonomous-lab-where-robotics-and-ai-converge-410993\">Inside the Autonomous Lab: Where AI and Robotics Meet<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologynetworks.com\/tn\/blog\/inside-the-autonomous-lab-where-robotics-and-ai-converge-410993\">https:\/\/www.technologynetworks.com\/tn\/blog\/inside-the-autonomous-lab-where-robotics-and-ai-converge-410993<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-24 07:51:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.technologynetworks.com\">www.technologynetworks.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Advances in laboratory automation and AI are reshaping the way scientific research is carried out, reducing bottlenecks, and enabling scientists to focus on discovery rather than routine manual work. To explore how these technologies are changing the modern lab, we spoke with James Atwood, CEO of Opentrons, a company known for making accessible, modular robotics that help labs automate complex workflows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In this interview, Atwood discusses the tasks most ripe for automation today, what \u201cautonomous science\u201d might look like, and the practical steps labs can take to become more AI\u2011 and automation\u2011ready.<\/p>\n<p>                    <span class=\"question\"><br \/>\n                        <span class=\"authorRollover\" id=\"authorRollover-22-0\" onmouseover=\"authorRolloverMouseOver('22-0')\" onmouseout=\"authorRolloverMouseOut('22-0')\"><br \/>\n                            <span style=\"float: left;\"><br \/>\n                                <span class=\"name-initials\" onclick=\"authorRolloverOnClick('22-0')\"> Kate Robinson (KR):<\/span><br \/>\n                                <span><\/p>\n<p>Science Editor<\/p>\n<p>Technology Networks<\/p>\n<p>\n                Kate Robinson is a science editor at Technology Networks. She joined the team in 2021 after obtaining a bachelor&#8217;s degree in biomedical sciences.\n            <\/p>\n<p>                                <\/span><br \/>\n                            <\/span><br \/>\n                        <\/span><br \/>\n                        <span class=\"name-initials-question\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Which day-to-day activities drain the most productivity in labs, and which of those are most automation-ready right now?<\/p>\n<p><\/span><br \/>\n                    <\/span><br \/>\n                    <br \/>\n                    <span class=\"authorRollover answer\" id=\"authorRollover-2521-1\" onmouseover=\"authorRolloverMouseOver('2521-1')\" onmouseout=\"authorRolloverMouseOut('2521-1')\"><br \/>\n                        <span style=\"float: left;\"><br \/>\n                            <span class=\"name-initials\" onclick=\"authorRolloverOnClick('2521-1')\"> James Atwood, PhD (JA):<\/span><br \/>\n                            <span><\/p>\n<p>                    <img src=\"https:\/\/assets.technologynetworks.com\/production\/dynamic\/images\/people\/2521\/james-atwood-phd-100x100.jpg?cb=20260324110312\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" alt=\"A greyscale headshot of James Atwood\" class=\"person-image editor-image\" onerror=\"PersonImageErrorHandler(this)\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Chief Executive Officer<\/p>\n<p>                                 &#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologynetworks.com\/tn\/blog\/inside-the-autonomous-lab-where-robotics-and-ai-converge-410993\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inside the Autonomous Lab: Where AI and Robotics Meet https:\/\/www.technologynetworks.com\/tn\/blog\/inside-the-autonomous-lab-where-robotics-and-ai-converge-410993 Publish Date: 2026-03-24 07:51:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":227013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/assets.technologynetworks.com\/production\/dynamic\/images\/content\/410993\/lab-lims-iot-digitization-77537-640x360.jpg?cb=20260324","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227012"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227014,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227012\/revisions\/227014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}