This is the secret Lab cgboost.com challenge entry. There were several iterations of this Entry. I think the final was ok.
This was my first shot of I had in mind. Some vats of monkey heads. A robotic arm. Monitors.
THen I had the idea to add in details like soup cups and boxes and things in a lab.
Blender is a powerful program and if you don't have a fast enough rig, you won't be able to do the things you really want to. Forget about simulations, or large scenes.
Get 32gigs of ram or more, (ddr5 ram just dropped in price), Get a VideoCard with 12gb of vram or more, get a large M.2 drive, and an 8 to 16core Processor.