A report came in the globally renowned journal Science, in the recent days, that a US$1 million robot-computer amalgam about the size of a large pickup truck, named Adam, was found to perform genetic experiments on yeast and it also reached novel conclusions single-handedly (without human help). Can you ascertain the significance of the news? The saga of scientific and technological development is gradually moving towards the next stage. This becomes more evident since Adam did establish a hypothesis, carried out experiments, studied the results, and modified its original hypothesis based on what it had found.

What was the response of its human counterparts? According to them, the whole initiative was not only amazing but the robot also ended by means of discovering a novel concept regarding yeast genetics. Besides the approach has also astounded the scientific communities worldwide and many have been found to wonder whether this major step toward reasoning machines and artificial intelligence would entail a job threat.

Well, there have already been widespread speculations over the possible implications for adding another pair of smart hands in a lab — even if those hands are silicon, not carbon-based.

Speaking on this Rich Hooper, a robotics consultant with Austin, Texas-based Symtx, told, “People call everything a ‘robot’ — every machine you can think of — because it sounds sexy.” “All of these things are really automation, not robots.” He, while speaking of Adam, said, that it “seems like it’s kind of on the path of being a true robot in some ways.” “It’s evaluating options and choosing between them, and that’s more than just hard automation in a factory, where the machine just welds the same seam on the same door over and over.”

He also made it clear that Adam indicated notable developments in the realm of science and any dependence on artificial-intelligence-equipped robots to handle lab tasks that require adaptive thinking apart from repetitive jobs would not be wrong.