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# HighRes Biosolutions Modularizes Lab Automation and Favors Collaborative Robotics

 by [ HighRes ](https://highresbio.com/news/author/highres) *|* May 1, 2018

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### Life Sciences Labs Need Cobots, Not Robots

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The John Henry legend, as told by Johnny Cash, not only recalls a competition between a steel-driving man and a steamdrill, it also suggests that the competition was poorly conceived: John Henry said to the steamdrill, *“How is you? / Pardon me, Mister Steamdrill, I suppose you didn’t hear me, huh? / Well, can you turn a jack? Can you lay a track? Can you pick and shovel, too? / Listen, this hammer-swinger is talkin’ to you.”*

The steamdrill, a nineteenth-century machine that lacked an on-board computer, much less a human-computer interface, understandably, if tragically, failed to answer John Henry’s questions. If only the steamdrill had been equipped with advanced robotics technology, the rock-drilling competition might have been avoided. A collaboration might have been arranged instead, giving John Henry the opportunity to demonstrate his jack-turning and track-laying versatility. Also—and this is no small detail—John Henry would have survived.

[Read Full Article at Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News](https://www.genengnews.com/gen-articles/life-sciences-labs-need-cobots-not-robots/6311)

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