"When I enter the average synthetic chemistry laboratory I’m often struck by the familiarity of the setting, regardless of where I am in the world. There are benches, fume hoods, evaporators and large amounts of glassware. All this kit is used in chemical synthesis – an art form that has largely remained unchanged for hundreds of years. Day in, day out, the average synthetic chemist is tied to the fume hood as they carry out tricky but repetitive solid and liquid-handling operations. But what if it was possible to digitise the ability to make complex chemical compounds on demand?
Around eight years ago, I asked myself and my team whether it was possible to make complex chemical compounds automatically. Could we instruct a universal chemical robot to produce any molecule I wanted from a computer code, just as effectively as an expert chemist, at low cost? The concept of the ‘chemputer’ was born.1"
https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/what-molecules-should-we-make-with-a-chemputer-robot/3010226.article
http://www.chem.gla.ac.uk/cronin/chemify/syntheses/2
Around eight years ago, I asked myself and my team whether it was possible to make complex chemical compounds automatically. Could we instruct a universal chemical robot to produce any molecule I wanted from a computer code, just as effectively as an expert chemist, at low cost? The concept of the ‘chemputer’ was born.1"
https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/what-molecules-should-we-make-with-a-chemputer-robot/3010226.article
http://www.chem.gla.ac.uk/cronin/chemify/syntheses/2