Larry M. York

I would give you the full $1 billion 👍

Ever dance with the devil in the pale moonlight? - The Joker

Sometimes it's nice to just watch.

Forced a collision in our plate imaging robot to demonstrate something more important than automation: safe failure and deterministic recovery.

Autonomy only works if safety is engineered first. Agentic layer coming up.

#AutonomousLabs #GenesisMission

LLMs don’t actually use tools. They’re stateless: text in, text out. “Tool use” is orchestration — structured text that systems parse and execute in between. #AutonomousLabs #GenesisMission

looks nice, I think that's a Plate Butler? I plan to release the full open hardware plans and software stack as a stand alone workcell that can be replicated for $15k USD

Excited to share our first fully integrated prototype, safety-compliant robotic plate imaging workcell at ORNL—complete with enclosure, Banner SC10 controller, door interlocks, and protective stop with a uFactory xArm 5.

#GenesisMission #AutonomousLabs #Robotics #OpenScience #LabAutomation

One year ago I led an effort to standardize microbial imaging at work, procuring a colony doc it imager. We've demonstrated high reliability measures of microbial responses to minerals and to other species.

Now, I've created an open-source robotic workcell to do the same. More soon!

Excited to demo the first safety control system for our robotic workcell. As labs become more automated, it’s easy for safety to lag - getting it right early has been eye-opening. More to share soon as the COBOT Autonomous Lab continues to develop.
#MachineSafety #AutonomousLabs #GenesisMission

This is a aluminum profile structure with black plastic panels with a clear window on one side and a machine vision camera facing it from the other side about 60 cm away. On top of this, rhizotron is a computer laptop that shows a camera viewing software with a live feed depicting the current window which has a tool on it

I've been working on this then it hit me. Is this RhizoVision Tron?

With open hardware and software, we can accelerate root, soil, and microbiome research.

First, we have to solve the segmentation challenge of roots on soil so everyone can do it.

www.rhizovision.com

Great idea! I'm in a different field but do image analysis. Zenodo.org is a good fit. Give every image a unique file name. Make a csv file where each row has the file name and columns for species, collection site, other info, then columns for the measurements. Separate file that defines columns.

RhizoVision Explorer Get ready for RhizoVision - see roots like never before

I was asked to give that last minute. Thanks for staying!

www.rhizovision.com is still kicking, new version coming out soon.

Studying root systems with germination papers offers high resolution but lacks natural conditions. Using FSPMs and RhizoVision, we analyzed Populus trichocarpa roots, finding thermal time correlation and varying 2D/3D accuracy.
Details: spj.science.org/doi/10.34133/p…

How did this go? We have a new Linux version of RhizoVision with a command line mode to call from Python scripts. Let me know if you think it'd be useful for your pipeline, hopefully we can share a beta version soon

Advanced software, RhizoVision Explorer, analysed these images to extract detailed root architecture traits. The team also conducted genetic analysis using DarTSeq technology to identify DNA markers associated with root responses to phosphorus availability.

Do you have any information about the new model?

I share my protocols as PDFs on zenodo.org which provides a DOI and the ability to track views and downloads.

See phenotyper.com/datasets for examples

I upgraded to M365 Copilot which integrated some LLM with all my office apps. Kinda neat, has potential but needs work. On the other hand, when I right click words with red lines highlighting misspelling, there is no correction available!

UI: Get the basics right first!

I am concerned about that too.

Ha, well my memory is not as good. I've become really fascinated by agentic AI and how to use chatbots effectively. A single LLM is not enough but as we start bolting together many models, something profound is going to happen.

I miss the lack of discussion on human consciousness though.

Reminds me of the famous saying, "All art is plagiarism."

I sympathize but I also wonder what we really know about human creativity and thought. What exactly is different?

Worth sharing. Pay attention and remember drowning can be calm and quiet, watch out for kids. You know when they're quiet there might be trouble!

Man smiling and doing the peace sign in front of the life science building at University of Missouri

Graphical output from chat GDP generated by asking the model to summarize the abstract book in a graphical form. It talks about advancing root biology, root architecture, multiomics and AI root microbe interactions abiotic stress, cross species and translational insights, genetic and molecular regulationary development and species and parole through imaging and modeling

A beautiful sunset over the skyline of forest from downtown Columbia, Missouri

Recognizing the sponsors. Thank you. Includes many departments within the University of Missouri companies like Bayer and cortava Danforth issr the ippn are gone and others

At the IPG Root Biology Symposium at the University of Missouri. ChatGPT helped summarize the abstract book in graphical form. Great speakers and familiar faces of root biologists. Thanks to the organizers for inviting me and looking forward to telling you all more about RhizoVision Transformer.

screenshot of journal page where the 'cite' button brings up save and export options but not the actual citation.

Who makes these UIs? I just want to copy and paste it.

Photo of fenced in vegetable garden with exposed soil and some plants in a yard with a wooden fence behind it and some visible houses and trees farther away

Expanded the vegetable garden again this year - on the right side there. We enjoy planting and harvests throughout the year. Tennessee has a great climate for gardens but the clay soil needs work.

What about you? Anybody else garden?

How does #hyperspectral leaf reflectance vary with functional traits, site, and evolutionary lineage in #grasses? New paper, part of a special issue "Advancing Spectral Biology to Understand Plant Diversity Across Scales", check it out: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I remember seeing the terracotta soldiers there!

A man with black-framed glasses standing next to a drill press with his hand on the lever.

A boy and his drill press.

Drilling is an essential part of biology.

White 6 degree of freedom robot arm with parallel gripper for microplates and petri dishes.

Robots.

I'm still comprehending that our new 256 core, 1 TB RAM, 2x NVIDIA L40s analytics server is edge compute at a place like ORNL. AI-enabled image analysis is hungry. I'm fortunate to work with people who know what they are doing!

What, isn't it kinda weird you can't delete your last prompt and model output from context when it's not going well in ChatGPT? That seems like an obvious need after using it a few times.

Thanks Amit, interesting work