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Lab automation education and resource hub at theautomatedlab.com
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You can read a more detailed update on our Patreon, which we are slowly figuring out how to use properly. :) You can join our community for free, or support us for as little as $5/month and get a cool robot sticker as a thank you! www.patreon.com/posts/novemb...
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Designing Experiments for Automated Labs! We publish practical information about lab automation for scientists and engineers. This piece focuses on how researchers can approach large-scale experimentation in highly automated wetlabs theautomatedlab.com/article.html...
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This kind of website is a massive source of inspiration for TAL. Now more than ever we need folks sharing their expertise beyond the confines of any particular social platform. The more niche, the better 🙏
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Much lies ahead for this project, and I am deeply excited for what comes next. Please check us out at theautomatedlab.com or be a hero and support us at www.patreon.com/c/theautomat...
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though I hope it inspires the next generation of technology to improve upon the last.
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The Automated Lab is a collection of educational resources for those who are new to the world of lab automation. It is intended primarily as a practical guide for a diverse set of people who work in and around automated laboratories,
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Only in the last few years have we started to address this issue as a professional community, and I find myself at the right intersection of experience, arrogance, and unemployment to contribute to our small but growing pile of communal knowledge.
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Many automation engineers work on small teams with strong but sparse expertise, leaving them to figure out their own career development. Or perhaps they will leave the field in favor of a career path with clearer growth opportunities.
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But a lab automation engineer must tinker with expensive equipment and reagents on the job to develop basic skills.
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A software engineer has an internet full of free educational resources and a biologist has as many textbooks and youtube explainers. A mechanical or electrical engineer may attend school at the vocational, undergraduate, or graduate level.
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Our field is tricky in that we work almost entirely with immature, expensive, and highly proprietary technology.