Vision:
Build a "fun" framework that would attract lots of young minds to ask interesting questions, engineer biological cells to answer those questions, and easily share their results and explanations with each other.
Problem:
1. providing the education to the masses... but I have some hope that young people are quite good are educating themselves, given the motivation
2. Resource
3. Safety
Possible solution:
One or two well maintained centralized robots with a fun interface for entering experiments and storing/visualizing the results. This is very much possible, except that it is expensive. But if the benefit is large enough, it is possible that government and/or companies might solve that issue.
But if such a programmable robot existed as a resource, I can imagine numerous researchers wanting to try new experiments and test new hypotheses. Since the data is centralized, there is a built-in benefit of data-integration, i.e. finding relationships between multiple experiments and drawing conclusions based on large number of experiments. It would be like a Facebook for biological experiments: everyone wants to dump their favorite hypothesis on it.
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