Can instrument automation replace researchers?

There has been such a discussion on the network: with the automation of the instrument, people's experimental operation ability has retreated For example, manual injection has become automatic injection, and the thin-layer plate does not need to be laid by itself now... what else has been replaced by automation in your experiment? Laboratory Z: the automatic column passing machine improves the experimental efficiency and makes some people "lazy" From: CBG online store expert rapid liquid phase preparation system sepabean ® machine to summarize, chemical laboratory automation can bring at least the following benefits: 1 Improve the efficiency of experimental operation Taking drug analysis as an example, drug analysis is an important part of pharmaceutical engineering The main workload is focused on the third phase of clinical qualitative analysis of drugs, such as drug efficacy / degradation, drug dissolution and Karl Fisher humidity analysis Among them, drug dissolution is a labor-intensive part Especially in large and medium-sized enterprises, when the number of drugs is large, the efficiency of manual operation alone can not meet the requirements of industrial production, so many pharmaceutical enterprises are committed to the development of robot experiments in this area How can intelligent robots cooperate with humans? 2 To improve the accuracy of the experimental operation, environmental monitoring needs to test the contents of trace substances or elements in the atmosphere, soil, water source, to detect whether they are within a certain range of indicators For routine analysis, it can be done manually, but for those substances with very low content, it must rely on precise instruments The higher the degree of automation, the more advanced the detection means, and the higher the detection accuracy It is difficult to obtain satisfactory results for the detection of low-level mercury in nature by using conventional trace element technology However, the conventional detection of low-level mercury can only be completed by using a special fluorescence detection system and an automatic support system From: CBG online store skylight optical instrument wgy-10 fluorescence spectrophotometer laboratory automation can also reduce the physical labor of experimental operators: manual operation is time-consuming and has great subjectivity and limitations, automatic synthesis means can carry out more extensive experiments than manual, and the experimental period can be greatly shortened To reduce the exposure of experimental operators to toxic substances; to complete some operations that are not competent by human; to reduce environmental pollution: some experiments can be replaced by computer simulation; to improve the intelligence of experiments From: in CBG online store, the equipment of constant temperature closed type ultrasonic reactor of ymn-1000d in Manelli is becoming more and more advanced, and the requirements will be higher and higher, such as thin layer and gas phase or liquid phase, the accuracy of the former can not be compared with the latter At the same time, the more precise the instrument is, the more difficult it will be to maintain Manual operation can help to understand the principle of the experiment, better use and maintain the automatic instrument, and the experimenter needs to judge whether the test results of the automatic instrument are accurate and reliable For the novice, if they do not learn and master the basic experimental operation and directly start to use automatic instruments, it may be detrimental to the subsequent development Nowadays, the manual injection of gas phase is changed to automatic injection, and the actual operation ability of many experimenters is reduced, but the working efficiency is improved, because the automatic instrument can work 24 hours The impact of automation and intelligence makes people wonder whether the instrument can complete the scientific research independently? Next, use the video content that Netease technology interviewed Yu Jinquan in 2017 to answer this question Netease Technology: the development of Internet, big data and artificial intelligence is promoting the development of many disciplines They are believed to promote the development of other related disciplines in the future Do you think that in the field of hydrocarbon bond activation, or in the field of organic chemistry, it will also be driven by the development of big data and artificial intelligence on the Internet, and the future development is very different? Yu Jinquan: there are many misunderstandings here We think that the Internet and mobile phones are closely related to daily life, so we all think that this impact will be great, but it is still very limited for scientific research at present AI can be a tool, but it's far from creatively driving a field It's a very simple reaction, not to say to find some new ideas instead of scientists If people find out, it's still very difficult for computers to simulate and explain Creative research is not the same as Internet or chess Postscript: the impact of automation and intelligence, in fact, is the user experience when using, so that our operation can be faster, more accurate, more convenient, but can not dominate our ideas For scientific research, all the ideas and spirits of scientific researchers are what automation and intelligence do not have In other words, even though artificial intelligence has gradually emerged, automation and intelligence have gradually replaced some artificial operations Scientific researchers are still an important part of scientific research, and scientific researchers and scientific research instruments are still complementary.