Heterodox Research
Thesis
In addition to providing tools, infrastructure and grants that support radical science, we also drive our own internal research. Our topic of focus: 'the scientific process itself'. We are domain agnostic - we believe that the bottleneck facing scientific progress and a flourishing culture of science - is rooted in narrow epistemology + restrictive methodology. There is no single 'scientific method' and the popularization of such thinking has led us into this stagnation.
The way out of stagnation is through methodological pluralism, and our goal as a research lab is to discover new ways of 'doing science'.
Flagship Project: BIG SISTER LAB BENCH
FIRST OF ITS KIND, END-END OPEN-SOURCE LAB (EE-OS)
Big sister will be our attempt at capturing + virtualizing the end-end scientific process, such that meaningful process tracking, AI Augmentation and Reproducability can be introduced to science.
The system transforms the traditional lab bench into a connected workspace that tracks all objects + activities, documents experiments, validates against existing protocols and provides real-time logs, and error checking.
Key Features
- •Multi-angle camera array with computer vision model
- •Environmental sensor stack
- •Real-time experiment documentation and visualization
- •Traditional lab bench tools + equipment (biology, chemistry, physics)
- •Tracked to the HDX Labs software platform for data integration