http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6f6d28c2-207e-11de-b930-00144feabdc0.html
"Aberystwyth University researchers showed off their robot scientist Adam, the first machine to make scientific discoveries by devising and carrying out experiments (on yeast genetics)."
It's not just grinding through stuff. It comes up with a hypothesis, then devises experiments to test it, and then stuff to test the results.