The Development Bureau has also released a.
This is certainly not a time to be wedded to the bench..Intimately linked, still early in its industrialisation but a few stages ahead of smart-technology, is automation and digitisation.
Certainly, for automation, there is more confidence and immediate view about the tangible benefits that it could bring.. ‘Automating out’ routine work can have a significant impact on cost where there is the scale to support the investment.Routine laboratory work takes scientists away from research thinking and potentially is a turn-off to those considering a career in laboratories.However, this is not a simple path.
It requires a change in the skill sets required in laboratories: scientists who develop skills in equipment engineering and coding or hardware and software engineers who develop skills in science.The current education system does not produce cross-fertilised disciplines (although skills like coding are becoming more endemic in the cohorts entering the workforce today).. Perhaps a more pressing problem is the fact that the new workforce of the 2020s is not keen to travel into an office or laboratory to work, preferring working remotely.. For research work and smaller more specialised laboratories, the automation story is different.
Without the scale, the investment in robotised systems against simple improvements in efficiency does not add up.
The released value of scientists being freed up to spend more time analysing, discussing, collaborating and thinking is not well quantified.‘Hardly anyone goes down there and it’s just a complete glass wall so you can see out...see across to the hotel and things like that.’ She talks about the quietness of the space.
‘You can literally go up there for five minutes and escape and you won’t see another person… So that’s quite nice,’ she says, laughing.’.Raj Goel sums up the general mood about Circle’s Reading facility.
‘It’s a great place to work,’ he says.‘It also encourages a positive attitude when you come in because even the patients...when they come in...look impressed.