Lab Automation

Lab automation applies robotics, software, and AI to accelerate scientific research by automating experimental workflows in biology, chemistry, and materials science laboratories. High-throughput screening systems, liquid handling robots, automated microscopes, and AI-powered experiment design enable researchers to run thousands of experiments simultaneously rather than one at a time. The sector serves pharmaceutical drug discovery (screening compound libraries), genomics (automated sequencing preparation), clinical diagnostics (sample processing), and the emerging category of self-driving laboratories where AI designs experiments, robots execute them, and machine learning analyzes results in a closed loop. Companies like Emerald Cloud Lab, Strateos (acquired by Recursion), and Culture Biosciences provide cloud lab infrastructure where researchers can run experiments remotely through software interfaces.