According to Discovery News, a robot named Adam has managed to process and design a dozen new genes without outside assistance.

Adam actually discovered more than 12 new gene functions. When King and his colleagues compared the functions of all the genes Adam found, they realized that some of them had previously been described. So Adam had independently confirmed those results.

Adam is still a prototype, but King’s team hopes their next robot, Eve, will help boost the search for new drugs to combat diseases such as malaria.

'I've experiments to run, there is research to be done'

Let’s hope Adam and Eve (the successor) do not develop a taste for cake.

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