Robots and AI will digitize around 70 million UK museum specimens, from insects and pressed plants to fossils and rocks, cutting work once estimated at centuries to about a decade. The open database should help researchers track species decline, climate impacts and changes in food and pest systems.
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UK museums will put 70 million natural history specimens online

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Robots and AI will digitize around 70 million UK museum specimens, from insects and pressed plants to fossils and rocks, cutting work once estimated at centuries to about a decade. The open database should help researchers track species decline, climate impacts and changes in food and pest systems.

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