Generative Science

*Uh-oh.

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/robotscientist.html

Adam is the first automated system to complete the cycle from hypothesis, to experiment, to reformulated hypothesis without human intervention.

Adam's British designers, led by Ross King at Aberystwyth University in Wales, acknowledge that the robot's discoveries have been "of a modest kind" thus far. Its proving ground as a scientist has been the genome of baker's yeast, a popular laboratory species. Baker's yeast is o