Being a scientist is cool and all, but you have to do things the exact same way except for changing one variable at a time for a proper science experiment. Having a robot helper to run the experiment the exact same way modulo the variable would be great for science and especially for reproducing experiments. There's a reproduction crisis and a robot that could run reproductions would move science itself forwards.

The other part of the question is, for you, merely just being a scientist is the most rewarding thing ever and there's absolutely no boring parts whatsoever? Your favorite part of the job is everything, and there's none of it that you'd trade for a bit of the other? I mean, I suppose that's possible, but that beggars belief.

I'm a computational scientist so I already spend most of my time writing codes to automate my science. If C3P0 wants to help out then I'm happy to have him.

The reproduction crisis is predominately in social sciences. This is for several reasons but the main one is that social science is much newer than the physical sciences. There's a great book about rasch modelling which equates social science to physics before thermodynamics. That at the very best, you can measure the temperature but there was a time when we had a poor understanding of what it meant when the temperature changes. That's clearly where social science is right now and the reproduction crisis is a good thing. It's challenging the status quo to come up with better theory to motivate observation and experiment.

To answer your final question, yes, the parts of my job that I find annoying, unrewarding, and time wasting that I would happily trade to another are itemized but not complete below:

* Planning my own travel, purchasing all my own tickets and lodging and having no help to do any of that

* Sitting in meetings with colleagues who are explaining to me why it's ok that the interns aren't getting paid because they are going to give them visa gift cards instead

* Editorialmanager.com website

* Having no itemized or explicit way to examine the expenditure in my grants so that when I ask admin staff how much money there is for X they reply with "you have enough money" instead of the actual amount

* Researchgate website

* Colleagues who are rude and condescending instead of going to therapy to wonder why they are insecure

* Expense reimbursement instead of having a purchase card attached to my grants

* Convincing older colleagues to use "new" technology like slack or GitHub

If C3P0 can solve any one of those problems for me I'll get one in a heartbeat.