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The article did not say that it "designed" anything.

• ErrantX 17y ago
  Actually it says that in the first few paragraphs; and the rest of the article heavily implies the same. Reading more on the original sources and I think it's a bit of both worlds. The robot was given a set of initial data plus the problem it was facing and it iteratively created experiments - at each stage deciding which experiment to do next to improve it's "knowledge" and progress towards the goal. From sciencemag.com [1]: The basis of science is the hypothetico-deductive method and the recording of experiments in sufficient detail to enable reproducibility. We report the development of Robot Scientist "Adam," which advances the automation of both. 1. http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/324/5923/85 http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/324/5923/85