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Robot Talk Episode 129 – Automating museum experiments, with Yuen Ting Chan


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17 October 2025



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Claire chatted to Yuen Ting Chan from Natural History Museum about using robots to automate molecular biology experiments.

Yuen Ting Chan has nearly 20 years of experience working on translating, developing and optimising laboratory protocols, from DNA forensics to the biomedical field. She has brought automation to molecular laboratories for over 12 years, translating the laboratory protocols into bespoke scripts for a wide variety of liquid handling instruments. Her role at the Natural History Museum is to bring automation to the molecular laboratories, thus providing more opportunities for researchers to work on projects with large sample numbers for the wide variety of specimens within the museum.




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