Voice technology has the potential to increase work productivity and efficiency in many different disciplines.  The scientific laboratory is an environment that can greatly benefit from hand’s free interactions.  Often when scientists are performing work at the bench, their hands are occupied or inaccessible.  In order to access information while performing an experiment, scientists have to pause their experiment to locate the information they need to complete their work.  This information is typically stored in many different places - lab notebooks, spreadsheets accessed by computer, sticky notes on a lab bench, etc.  Stopping an experiment to access information stored in these traditional means can lead to human errors and contamination, resulting in great loss of time and money and contributing to experiment irreproducibility.  At HelixAI, we believe that a voice-activated virtual laboratory assistant can help scientists get the information they need without having to disengage from their experiments.  We have created a platform that allows scientists to customize their own virtual lab assistants which can be accessed using an Amazon Echo device.  Scientists are able to use our specially designed dashboard to add their custom lab information and content - such as protocols, SOPs, recipes, inventories, etc. - to their virtual assistant.  They can then prompt an Echo device for this information by using natural language queries and receive a real-time auditory response.  The use of a HelixAI-generated virtual assistant can help increase the efficiency with which scientists complete their experiments by providing scientists with accurate, immediate information.       <br/>

HelixAI: A voice-first platform for scientific research and discovery

256th National Meeting (2018)

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