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Forget Russian botnets or cryptocurrency spammers – the latest robots to join Twitter are chemists. By hooking up automated platforms to the internet and letting them chat on social media, researchers have shown that robots can work together to solve simple chemistry problems.
Lee Cronin at the University of Glasgow and his team built two robots capable of mixing liquids through a system of pumps and analysing the results with a webcam hooked up to a small computer. The robots were physically separated, but able to communicate via their Twitter accounts.
The team tasked the …