The August 31, 2021 Wall Street Journal carried an article on the strategic Cloudlab initiative at Carnegie Mellon University. See

https://www.wsj.com/articles/carnegie-mellons-cloud-lab-to-automate-labor-intensive-science-experiments-11630348526?page=1

This is an important development that we highlighted  in our most recent Executive Roundtable on Research Continuity, see

https://www.cni.org/go/future-research-enterprise-june-2021

CNI will continue to track developments in this area, and I continue to welcome updates from other institutions doing related work.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI