Heuristics for lab robotics, and where its future may go

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Primers Heuristics for lab robotics, and where its future may go 8.4k words, 38 minutes reading time Abhishaike Mahajan Feb 09, 2026 155 19 25 Share Note: this article required conversations with a lot of people. A (hopefully) exhaustive, randomized list of everyone whose thoughts contributed to the article: Lachlan Munroe (Head of Automation at DTU Biosustain ), Max Hodak (CEO of Science , former founder of Transcriptic ), D.J. Kleinbaum (CEO of Emerald Cloud Labs ), Keoni Gandall (former founder of Trilobio ), Cristian Ponce (CEO of Tetsuwan Scientific ), Brontë Kolar (CEO of Zeon Systems ),

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