Robot-first science factories measure 1,000 mutants/week — a 4-person team scaled assays 25x
shae_mcl · x · 2026-10-26
A debate on where AI-for-science money should go. @samsinai argues robot-first science factories treat biology scaling like car manufacturing — like 1940s investors pouring 100x money into automated vacuum-tube factories instead of inventing the transistor. He cites a near-billion-dollar robot-first science factory measuring only 1,000 mutants/week, while a 4-person team at Dyno scaled equivalent assay multiplexing by 25x. Reposter shaecl agrees: higher-signal, higher-throughput measurement-layer innovation will pay off faster than robotics.
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