News Summary

• Ginkgo Bioworks has an autonomous lab where AI robots replace lab benches.
• Robots are arrayed around the lab, each working on separate science projects.
• Reshma Shetty: "The really, really wild moment was the first time I saw a lab notebook entry written by the model" The autonomous lab works on a range of pharmaceutical, agricultural, government and other projects..
• Current projects include engineering microbes for better fertilizer and creating proteins that will make snow or ice.
• They do a significant amount of research on pharmaceuticals.