AI-powered autonomous robots that automate complex lab workflows, improve reproducibility and traceability, connect multi-vendor instruments, and allow laboratories to scale faster while freeing ...

In the software realm, agentic AI models, platforms that can serve as assistants for researchers, also stood out. Executives ...

Editor’s Note: This is part of a series called Inside the Lab, which gives audiences a first-hand look at the research laboratories at the University of Chicago and the scholars who are tackling some ...

Lisa Bates, a medical technologist see seen through the window of a PCR analysis machine in the PCR testing lab at Quest Diagnostics on February 9, 2022 in Indianapolis, Indiana. The lab is capable of ...

Opentrons, a leader in lab automation, announces the launch of its Opentrons Flex robot, a new generation of affordable and easy-to-program liquid-handling lab robots designed to level the playing ...

To those well-acquainted with lab work, the tedium of benchwork is all too familiar. From precise pipetting to meticulous experiment setup and data handling, scientists invest countless hours in ...

It is not hard to find popular depictions of robots in the future. What comes to my mind is Rosie the robot maid from the animated comic “The Jetsons.” Ever faithful and dependable, she is as much a ...

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Explore how ABB Robotics is reshaping laboratory automation with AI and collaborative robotics at SLAS 2026 in Boston.

One might expect a hospital’s clinical lab to look like a high school chemistry classroom on steroids, with complex, sterile-looking machines that analyze blood and other specimens and people in white ...

Suspended on a cable fixed between two trees in front of the Engineering Gateway building on UC Irvine’s campus hangs the RaccoonBot. And well, he’s just adorable. “The ‘cute factor’ wasn’t just a ...