LabChat: Expected Changes
Today on LabChat, we are traveling five years down the road to what labs will look like in 2019. To get an accurate description of what the lab of the future is expected to entail, Laboratory Equipment recently surveyed its readership and analyzed the results.
When looking at specific types of analytical instrumentation and laboratory equipment, the most significant changes expected are likely to be in automation systems, with 76% of the vote, and data acquisition systems, with 73% of the vote. Detectors and sensors received 65% of the vote, before a rather dramatic drop-off and evening out of the remaining instrumentation choices.