i designed chemputation to be like the chemical equivalent of a computer. is literally a virtual reality map of the robot. so you can see in here all these different icons. theyjust represent the different objects in here. so you've got pumps, valves, reactors and stirrer. so this down here is the reactor and the stirrer and all the pumps and the valves and they're all connected together by these white lines which represents this tubing. and so we connect it all up in virtual reality so we can check it. and we could even do a simulation before we actually do the chemistry for real. to control the chemputer, we actually use like an internet router and the input chemicals are taken up. you can see these pumps and valves are moving. we take this blue solution and we put it into this separator here where you can see the orange solution and we then basically take a video of that using an infrared spectrometer which looks at colour changes and can tell us if the molecules have been chemputed — gone from the starting molecules to the end molecules that we need. an

i designed chemputation to be the chemical equivalent of a computer.ity map of the robot, so you can see in here all these different icons representing different objects, and he you have pumps, valves, reactors, and down here is the reactor, and the stirrer, and all the pumps on the valves and they are all connected together ljy they are all connected together by these white lines which represent this tubing, so we connected all up in virtual reality is that we can check it and we can even do a simulation before we actually do the chemistry for real. to control this we use an internet router, and the input chemicals are taken up because we we see these pumps and valves are moving, we take this blue solution, we put it into the orange solution and take a video about using an infrared spectrometer which looks at colour and can tell us of two if the molecules have been chemputed, going from the starting molecules into the end molecules and we can keep checking until we know we have made the molecule we want. initially the experts were a little bit sceptic