Automation

Automation has become more common in labs across the world, thanks to technological developments seen in recent decades. Automation can be beneficial for various reasons, including facilitating tasks with higher throughput, reducing human error and contamination, and it’s also one way we can address the reproducibility crisis.

In this In Focus, we will explore the topic of automation, including the benefits of automation, when a lab should consider an automated infrastructure and how they would go about integrating automation into their lab.