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Tokyo opens a fully automated medicine lab staffed by humanoids
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Tokyo's Institute of Science opened the first fully automated medicine laboratory staffed entirely by humanoids and robots, targeting two thousand research machines by 2040 to automate experiments, cell culture and discovery.
Reported metric: 2,000 by 2040
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