Is Automation a Field of Science?

You might like a paul rose and bloom's book on computing. Are you familiar with the push lis in the life sciences towards automation of laboratory experiments? Am, like emerald od is a good example of one theal i am not, i'm not familiar with the most recent efforts. I can get close to robotics, but i'm still quite ted when you start to think about li e c l transcriptics. There's a lot that's been going on the last couple of years that i find interesting,. It becomes more that you can just codify everything.