Syngenta has launched an agriculture chemical formulation robot. The robot can make almost any liquid agrochemical formulation in small amounts, and perform a basic series of tests to see if those formulations are of interest for further research.

Named Artemis after the Greek Goddess of the hunt, Artemis is also an acronym for Automated Robot to Evaluate Millions of Interesting Solutions.

Adam is a robot scientist designed at Aberystwyth U and is the first robotic system to make a scientific discovery with virtually no human intellectual input. Adam was Time Magazines #4 Scientific Discovery of 2009.