Completed Paper Series on Lab Automation

The publication of our latest article “The Digital Lab Facility Manager: Automating operations of research laboratories through ‘The World Avatar’", completes a series of papers detailing our approach to the transformation of research laboratories with the help of digital twins.

We introduce the Digital Lab Framework, a holistic approach to laboratory automation and digitisation powered by The World Avatar. This framework not only guides the development of flexible and distributed self-driving laboratories based on interoperable knowledge models – it also includes peripheral aspects such as building infrastructure and inventory management and thereby allows automation of tasks typically handled by lab managers or facility managers. The implementation of these different aspects is demonstrated based on different use cases in our Singapore-based chemistry lab.