New Lab

Oct. 14th, 2024 06:43 pm
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Here are some photos of my new lab at work:



Two wheeled robots next to some racked shelving with Really Useful Boxes on the bottom layer.  Carboard NAO boxes visible stacked to the right.
This is our storage cupboard. I'm still unpacking, though the NAO boxes are now on the racks.

A large space with grey walls and a white floor.  A desk is just visible on the right.  A man stands at the far end in front of four screens.
This is a view across the lab towards the "DigiWall". Everyone is very excited about the DigiWall - I haven't a clue what we will actually do with it. The man you can see spent two days setting it up and has now vanished. I've not attempted to use it. Hopefully there are instructions somewhere.

A view of a pillar.  A desk and chair are visible to the right and windows and doors to offices on the left.
This is the route from the entrance to the lab to the offices and meeting room based within the lab. I'm going to have to do something risk assessment-wise to ensure that people can always safely access their offices (though one of my PhD students today was suggesting it might be good exercise to have to dodge drones on the way to his office).

A small empty room with narrow floor to ceiling windows at the far end.
This is my office which now contains a desk. I realise it looks a bit unprepossessing but most of our offices look a bit like this. It's smaller than my old office but I do have the rest of the space (including a meeting room) to play with so I think on the whole I've traded up.



My colleagues in Engineering who three years ago were all moved into a ginormous custom-built state of the art building where there is not enough room and they have to share offices are all a bit gob-smacked by how I managed to get this much space. I'm not honestly sure I know either - I forsee spending the rest of my career defending my territory.

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Date: 2024-10-16 04:21 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] fred_mouse

Oh, yeah, that would do it. On the one hand, I understand the need for locked labs. On the other hand, I hate them.

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