Scientific discovery, automated.

At Tetsuwan, we are combining artificial intelligence with lab robots to develop autonomous platforms for life sciences research. A new age of scientific discovery is rapidly approaching.

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> user: help me run a qPCR on my Hamilton Nebula

> system: protocol sent to liquid handler

There is a gap between us...

and lab robots.

and lab robots.

Scientists communicate with each other in a significantly different way than they have to communicate with a lab robot. Communicating with other humans is largely implicit, but scripts for lab robots are explicit and must be designed under constraints we don’t often consider. Lab automation engineers work as translators to bridge this gap, however, this process is so slow and costly that it restricts our ability to use lab robots, especially for the type of high-variety experimentation scientists engage in.

We are closing this gap to work towards autonomous systems for scientific discovery.

Automating the process by which we interface with lab automation tools will close the large and expensive gap between lab automation tools and scientists, but also, between lab automation tools and AI models. Closing this gap is a critical step towards granting models physical agency- if scientists struggle to use automation without extensive support, how can we expect models to?

A new age of discovery is imminent.

Automating the scientific method will serve as humanity’s most consequential technical accomplishment. The scientific method drives knowledge, knowledge drives invention, and invention drives our progress. While this challenge spans several incredibly complex problems, including hypothesis generation, automated experimentation, and knowledge distillation, a new approach to scientific discovery sits on the horizon. More about us and our work can be found at the links below.

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