A Robot that could Make Drugs

Scientists at the Universities of Cambridge and Manchester have built a robot name Eve, an artificially-intelligent "robot scientist" that was made to shorten development time and increase economy. According to the University of Cambridge, pharmaceutical research is stuck in a terrible bottleneck. It can take 10 years and US $1 billion to create a new drug – time during which many people continue to suffer and that money needs to be recouped somehow. By the short time Eve was out it prove that is not only faster and cheaper than its human counterparts, but has already identified a compound that could be used to fight malaria The research team says that Eve currently does not have the capability to synthesize compounds that it can design based on its tests, but this could be added to future versions.

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