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Asked by anon-255949 to Spyridon, Rachael on 1 Jun 2020.
Question: Is there a greater role for robots in plant chemistry?
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Rachael Hallam answered on 1 Jun 2020:
That’s a great question! Robots are really useful for running high throughput assays on lots of samples and are used for standard things such as blood tests in the NHS, or drug discovery for pharmaceutical companies. However there will always be a need for scientists to do more complex procedures by hand or to apply their brain to results when working! As in all industries, robots can help us work more efficiently but will rarely replace humans, especially in any job where you need to think about what is happening.
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anon-256062 commented on :
Oh wow, thank you so much!
Enrica commented on :
Catherine, most of the Chemical plant already online in the world are very lightly manned. Most of the operation are done through automatic processed controlled in the several control rooms.
Not sure if adding robots would benefit anyhow, and at the moment I am not aware of any large scale application of robots in manning oil and gas/petrochemical plant.