Thursday, May 28, 2015

What is the likelihood chemists will be replaced by robots?

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  1. AnonymousMay 28, 2015 at 10:04 PM

    What is this, the golden age of CombiChem? :-)

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    1. AnonymousMay 29, 2015 at 8:58 AM

      Maybe not exploratory synthetic chemistry or empirical physical chemistry per se, but many aspects of standard analytical chemistry are heading there. Examples of this trend include sample handling, auto-shimming, auto-quantification, etc.

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  2. AnonymousMay 29, 2015 at 12:09 PM

    "Does your job require negotiation" is surprising to me, because in all the places I have worked it has been constant negotiation. With Quality, with Management, with everything. Constant. Will-grinding. Negotiation.

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  3. AnonymousMay 29, 2015 at 2:33 PM

    I'm a little disappointed it only ranks us slightly above the midpoint for "Do you need to come up with clever solutions?" That's my whole job description! Come up with clever solutions and patent them....

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  4. AnonymousMay 29, 2015 at 4:14 PM

    Sorry but automation (robots) will replace hands. While a few people will be responsible for coming up with solutions and sequences, the hands on stuff will be automated. It's coming and it's up to societies (ACS, right?!) to prepare the future generations for this event.

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  5. Generic ChemistJune 5, 2015 at 3:19 AM

    Does it matter if the supposed robots are made in India, or made in China?

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looks like Blogger doesn't work with anonymous comments from Chrome browsers at the moment - works in Microsoft Edge, or from Chrome with a Blogger account - sorry! CJ 3/21/20

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