With $4.5 million in fresh funding, Seattle-area startup Potato is sprouting big plans to disrupt scientific research with a fully automated experimental process.
The 2-year-old company has released a platform that serves as an AI research assistant to help scientists generate hypotheses, create optimized protocols for conducting research, aid in writing papers for publication, and offer critiques of journal articles.
The idea now is to go further and develop the technology needed for performing the actual experiments. They’ll start with computational research and move toward robotics capable of laboratory bench work.