LABORATORY ROBOTS One of the many categories of robots are laboratory robots, which includes advanced microcomputers with multi-jointed arms and sophisticated vision and tactile sensors. These robots are used for their exceptional hand-eye coordination to measure exact quantities of chemicals to one thousands of a millilitre. These robots are an essential component to present day experiments because of the need for extreme accuracy. No human could possible measure out exactly 1.001 millilitres of a substance, however, for a robot, it's an everyday task. The need for presision in scientific experimentation has created an entire new field for robotics and it is expanding rapidly. Scientists can now spend their time on areas that are far more important instead of spending hours trying to measure out the exact quantities of reactants. Even if scientists did spend hours measuring out quantities, a robot could perform the same task in a tenth of the time and it would even be far more accurate! For this main reason, robots are now entrusted to carry out these precision tasks which are later used to perform complex research experiments to advance and aid our society.