Team:Marburg/Labautomation

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This year at iGEM Marburg, we decided to incorporate the AI and robot revolution into our cutting-edge Synthetic Biology research. With our OT2 pipetting robot that we won last year and advanced machine learning methods, our objective is to design automated protocols that will accelerate research in Synthetic Biology. This is realized in two ways namely by delegating mindless works to pipetting robots and by achieving a high degree of reproducibility. The latter being a point that has been a common complained in Synthetic Biology and can be mitigated by standardization, which will be very welcomed by the community (for more details see Integrated Human Practices). We envision a future of Synthetic Biology, where people exchange robot protocols on top of text description of an experiment to ensure a high degree of reproducibility. We believe that our approach of infusing the best of computing and robotic world into Synthetic Biology will elevate the field even further.