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Here is an example of what robots in our lab do:
Left panel: The robot picks up plates with yeast colonies and puts them on the work surface (not very exciting, admittedly...)
Right panel: Once the plates sit on the work surface the robot removes the lids from the plates and then transfers yeast colonies from one plate to another (which contains a different medium).
Believe it or not: From such a simple experiment we can deduce which proteins bind to which other ones.