[hcknwscommenter]

Complete automation would be tricky. We are dealing with a lot of starting and intermediate materials that need to be precisely incubated under demanding and entirely sterile conditions. You need incubations at liquid nitrogen temperatures (for storing cell lines), -80 C, -20 C, 4 C, room temp, 30 C, 37 C, 37 C 5% CO2, etc. THen you need a way to go to and from each of these environments and a way of sterilizing in between steps. I'm not saying it's impossible, but it seems difficult.