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上海人工智能实验室
National AI Lab · Since 2020
National AI laboratory; its AGI4S programme builds the Intern-S1 scientific foundation model and the Intern-Discovery agent-instrument platform (200+ cross-disciplinary agents spanning physics, chemistry and materials).
AI 辅助材料发现研究院（清华大学）
Tsinghua University (Omar Yaghi) · Since 2026
Tsinghua University's institute for AI-assisted materials discovery, established with Omar Yaghi's involvement — a new-style organisation pairing reticular chemistry with AI-driven materials discovery.
字节跳动 Seed · AI for Science
ByteDance · Since 2024
ByteDance Seed's AI-for-Science track, focused on foundation models for biomolecules and drug discovery.
深势科技 · 玻尔平台
DP Technology · Since 2018
Serves materials and drug R&D with AI-for-Science infrastructure — the Bohrium platform, the Uni model family and the MatMaster materials agent; unveiled a large-scale intelligent R&D facility for solid-state electrolytes in 2026.
DeepH · 段文晖团队（清华大学）
Tsinghua University · Since 2022
The DeepH series from Wenhui Duan's group at Tsinghua: universal neural-network models of the DFT Hamiltonian, accelerating electronic-structure prediction for arbitrary structures.
镁伽科技
MegaRobo Technologies · Since 2019
Robotic laboratory solutions provider for life sciences and new materials, delivering automated workstations and turnkey intelligent labs.
SurFF / Uni-MOF · 王笑楠团队（清华大学）
Tsinghua University · Since 2024
Foundation models from Xiaonan Wang's group at Tsinghua for catalyst surfaces and MOF gas adsorption (SurFF, Uni-MOF), supporting high-throughput screening.
江俊团队 · ChemAgents 与机器化学家（中国科学技术大学）
USTC Hefei (Jun Jiang) · Since 2022
Jun Jiang's robot chemist and the ChemAgents multi-agent platform at USTC: LLM-driven robotic chemistry closing the loop from literature to experiment.
MAOSIC 云上材料加速操作系统（香港中文大学·深圳）
CUHK-Shenzhen / AIRS (Xi Zhu) · Since 2020
Xi Zhu's cloud-based self-driving laboratory demonstrator MAOSIC: autonomous discovery of chiral inorganic perovskite nanocrystals under remote collaboration.
晶泰科技
XtalPi (HKEX) · Since 2015
Hong Kong-listed intelligent drug and materials R&D company, running quantum-physics computation, AI and automated experimental workstations at scale.
深度原理
Deep Principle · Since 2024
AI-for-Science startup building generative models and automated experimental loops for chemistry and materials.
甬江实验室
Provincial (Ningbo) · Since 2021
Ningbo new-style research institute building intelligent R&D and pilot-scale platforms for materials.
青葵智造
Qingkui · Since 2021
Intelligent synthesis and lab-automation platform company for fine chemicals.
嘉庚创新实验室
Xiamen University / Fujian Province · Since 2019
Fujian new-style research institute led by Xiamen University (energy materials), building intelligent R&D and pilot scale-up capability.
英矽智能 · 生命之星
Insilico Medicine · Since 2023
Insilico Medicine's sixth-generation intelligent robotic lab "Life Star" (1,600+ m²) in Suzhou BioBAY: fully automated experiments scheduled directly by AI systems such as PandaOmics, covering target discovery, compound screening and translational medicine; its AI once went from target identification to preclinical candidate in 18 months.
北京科学智能研究院
AISI 北京科学智能研究院 · Since 2021
New-style research institute led by academician Weinan E (founded September 2021), building AI-for-Science infrastructure: the DeepModeling open-source community, scientific foundation models and data systems; co-publishes the AI for Science Innovation Atlas with DP Technology.
深圳合成生物研究重大科技基础设施
CAS SIAT · Since 2023
National major science infrastructure led by SIAT (CAS) in Guangming Science City: an intelligent, automated, high-throughput design-build-test-learn platform for synthetic biology whose modular fully automated islands re-line flexibly per project, open to academic and industrial users; once delivered a high-yield strain in 3 months.
国家合成生物技术创新中心（天津工业生物所）
CAS Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology · Since 2019
National synthetic-biotechnology innovation centre led by TIB (CAS Tianjin): biofoundry automation accelerating the DBTL cycle, plus a 6,000 m² digital pilot platform for intelligent biomanufacturing, bridging synthetic biology to industry.
上海交通大学 AI for Science
Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Since 2025
SJTU computer science with the Frontiers Science Center for Transformative Molecules released a chemical-synthesis LLM and the Co-Chemist human-machine active-learning framework (optimal ligand and solvent found in 15 experiments, 67% isolated yield).
汇像科技
XImaging · Since 2018
Shanghai "robot scientist" lab-automation provider (founded 2018), delivering end-to-end intelligent systems for synthetic biology, drug screening and testing; deeply involved in integrating Insilico Medicine's sixth-generation robotic lab "Life Star".
华为云 AI for Science · 盘古
Huawei Cloud · Since 2021
Huawei Cloud's AI4S scientific-computing platform on Ascend AI services (6 domains, 80+ models); Pangu scientific models applied to weather, drug and materials problems; co-publishes the AI for Science Innovation Atlas.
大连化物所 · 智能化工大模型与机器人实验装置
CAS DICP + iFlytek · Since 2024
DICP (CAS Dalian) and iFlytek released the Intelligent Chemistry model 2.0, coupled to a full-workflow high-throughput catalytic-reaction robot: auto-generating reaction kinetics for processes such as methanol-to-propylene, linking catalysis, process development, piloting and plant optimisation.
松山湖材料实验室
CAS Institute of Physics + Dongguan · Since 2018
One of Guangdong's first provincial laboratories (led by the CAS Institute of Physics, next to the China Spallation Neutron Source): frontier research, shared platforms and large facilities; released the materials LLM MatChat (280k-paper knowledge base), building an intelligent pipeline from data mining to experimental validation.
苏州实验室
National Laboratory (materials) · Since 2022
Centrally chartered national laboratory for materials (Suzhou Industrial Park), focused on strategic structural materials: high-throughput synthesis and characterisation systems, a new-materials big-data centre and an AI computational-design platform; released the MatMaster materials agent with DP Technology.
蓝晶微生物
Bluepha · Since 2016
Synthetic-biology company (Beijing Changping) with its own SynBio_OS R&D stack: the BlueArk flexible automation platform, AutoFarm ultra-high-throughput fermentation and the CyberFarm cloud data system, powering DBTL development of PHA biodegradable materials and other pipelines.
剂泰科技（METiS）
METiS Pharmaceuticals · Since 2020
AI-driven drug formulation and nanodelivery company (Hangzhou) integrating AI, quantum simulation and high-throughput formulation experiments (tens of thousands of formulations per week); builds the AiLNP, AiRNA and AiTEM design platforms and released the NanoForge AI nanodelivery platform.
国仪量子
CIQTEK · Since 2016
USTC-born quantum precision-measurement and scientific-instrument maker (STAR Market 2026, 688828): quantum diamond single-spin spectrometers, NV microscopes, EPR spectrometers and electron microscopes built independently of the import lock — the domestic hardware base for self-driving-lab characterisation in China.
智化科技（Chemical.AI）
Chemical.AI · Since 2018
AI chemical-synthesis company founded by Xia Ning in 2018 (Wuhan HQ, Shanghai Zhangjiang subsidiary): ChemAIRS retrosynthesis design reaches senior-chemist level; built the ChemAILab automated synthesis laboratory in Shanghai in 2021 — an "AI chemist".
深圳湾实验室
Guangdong 省实验室 · Since 2019
Guangdong provincial laboratory for biomedicine: 15 research institutes plus 10 technology platforms under an IT+BT identity; its drug-discovery platform runs high-throughput and high-content screening on automated liquid-handling stations, exploring cell factories and AI pharma.
奔曜科技
Bioyond Tech · Since 2021
Shanghai Zhangjiang lab-automation company (founded 2021, national "Little Giant"): the LabGenius general-purpose lab robot platform, LabMind software and the compact LabMate smart lab, serving research, clinical diagnostics and physico-chemical labs, with exports to Europe and the US.
百图生科（BioMap）
BioMap · Since 2020
Life-science AI foundation-model company founded by Robin Li and Wei Liu in 2020: xTrimo V3 (210B parameters, seven modalities across proteins, DNA and RNA) cuts the data needed for drug models to a tenth; struck a $1B+ collaboration with Sanofi.
恩和生物（Bota Bio）
Bota Bio · Since 2019
Synthetic-biology company (Hangzhou and California) running the standardised, automated, high-throughput Bota Biofoundry and Bota Freeway platform — computation-first acceleration of the DBTL cycle for enzyme engineering, strain optimisation and biomanufacturing; BASF-invested and an MIT TR50 listee.
上海科学智能研究院（上智院）
SAIS 上智院 (Shanghai + Fudan) · Since 2023
Strategic new-style research institute co-founded by the city of Shanghai and Fudan University in 2023 (president Yuan Qi); unveiled the Golab intelligent research factory for matter science in July 2026 — an integrated dry-wet loop of AI computation, automated experiments, data backflow and model self-evolution; also behind the Fuyao weather model and the Dasheng research companion.
沈阳自动化研究所 · 自驱动科学实验系统
CAS Shenyang Institute of Automation · Since 2026
The self-driving experiment system built by the State Key Laboratory of Robotics at SIA (CAS Shenyang): high-throughput workstations, automated cell culture and modular functional islands coordinated over a dedicated lab network — scientists guide the AI that runs the experiments.
智科特（IQuotient Robotics）
IQuotient Robotics · Since 2017
Beijing robotics company (founded 2017, national high-tech enterprise): self-driving labs via embodied automation and AI agents — lab middleware software, sample preparation, testing and instrument retrofits delivered full-stack; partners with Metrohm on petrochemical lab automation.
怀柔材料基因组研究平台（中科院物理所）
CAS Institute of Physics + Beijing · Since 2021
One of Huairou Science City's first cross-disciplinary platforms, co-built by the CAS Institute of Physics and the city of Beijing (in trial operation since 2021): large-scale high-throughput materials computation, screening, synthesis and rapid testing backed by a materials database — a data-driven accelerator for new materials.
弈柯莱生物
Abiochem Biotechnology · Since 2015
AI + biomanufacturing platform company (Shanghai): intelligent design, enzyme engineering, genetic engineering, cell foundry, fermentation and separation platforms supporting industrial-scale biomanufacturing; took a ¥450M strategic investment from SDIC in 2025 and began IPO counselling in August 2026 (CICC).
生物与分子智造研究院 · iBioFoundry + iChemFoundry（浙大杭州科创中心）
ZJU Hangzhou Innovation Center · Since 2020
The Institute of Bio-and-Molecular Intelligent Manufacturing at ZJU's Hangzhou Global Scientific and Technological Innovation Center: two automated science facilities — iBioFoundry (synthetic biology) and iChemFoundry (molecular manufacturing), 300+ instruments across 14,000 m² of shared labs — plus institutes for synthetic biology and molecular manufacturing and an AI crossover centre; Chengxi Li's intelligent and automated synthesis lab is based here.
莫一鸣课题组 · 智能电化学合成（浙江大学）
Zhejiang University ChemEng · Since 2020
Yiming Mo's group at ZJU chemical engineering (PhD from MIT's Jensen lab): electrochemical synthesis × automated high-throughput screening × AI × microreactors — the Jensen flow-chemistry automation lineage extended directly into China.
广州国家实验室 · 高通量无人化学实验室（廖矿标团队）
Guangzhou National Laboratory · Since 2021
Kuangbiao Liao's team at Guangzhou National Laboratory pairs "AI that understands chemistry" with an unmanned lab: a high-throughput synthesis platform cheaper to build and run than international peers, and a key contributor in COVID drug campaigns; spin-off Biaozhi Future ships a fully automated solid-powder dosing instrument.
郭天南实验室 · 自动化蛋白质组学（西湖大学）
Westlake University · Since 2017
Tiannan Guo's lab at Westlake University: robotic-arm automation combined with machine learning for efficient analysis of native protein complexes (Nature Communications 2026) — proteomics + AI workflows; Westlake's materials department also pursues microfluidic high-throughput experimentation and data modelling.
青浦复旦未来技术研究院
Fudan University + Qingpu · Since 2026
New-style research institute co-founded by Fudan University and Qingpu district (registered May, unveiled August 2026), the physical vehicle of Fudan's College of Future Technologies; already piloting a "super research factory" — no scientist watching screens, no technician shuttling between instruments — the autonomous-experiment anchor of the Yangtze Delta integration zone.
玄刃科技
Xuanren Technology · Since 2020
Founded in Zhangjiang in 2020 by ABB robotics R&D veterans: standardised platforms for life-science smart labs — versatile liquid handling, maglev flexible transfer, cleanroom collaborative arms and GMP bio-automation; released a "self-driving analytical lab" high-throughput sample-processing system.
宁波材料所 · 机器人海洋材料学家（常可可团队）
CAS Ningbo Institute of Materials · Since 2026
Keke Chang's "robot marine-materials scientist" at NIMTE (CAS Ningbo): a mobile manipulator handles powder weighing, ball milling and more, with experimental data flowing back live into in-house marine-materials AI tools — repetitive experiments handed to the machine.
吕华课题组 · 高通量聚合物平台（北京大学）
Peking University Chemistry · Since 2023
Hua Lu's group at PKU chemistry: a high-throughput polymer synthesis and post-modification platform combined with machine learning, data-driving the design of random copolypeptides that mimic polyclonal antibodies (JACS) and accelerating the exploration of functional polypeptide chemical space.
和光智成（XuanLab 自主实验室）
Heguang Zhicheng · Since 2025
AI new-materials company founded in December 2025 by a Beihang professor team: its "materials design-and-synthesis agent + AI-decision autonomous lab" was selected into Beijing's first AI-for-science exemplar cases; XuanLab runs 7×24 unattended with daily experimental throughput equivalent to a hundred-person team.
源络科技
Corenetic Technology · Since 2023
Founded in Zhongguancun in 2023 by Lian Wenzhao (ex Google X, Figure AI), with a Shanghai base at the SJTU industrial research institute: the Monte series of embodied-AI wheeled humanoids for dexterous manipulation, autonomous navigation and task understanding — operating centrifuges, samples and tube caps on unmodified lab equipment; partnering with BGI on biopharma R&D and laboratory automation; Alibaba-led Series A of several hundred million yuan in February 2025.
术也科技
Hangzhou Shuye Technology · Since 2018
Hangzhou lab-robotics company (Vecverse), founded 2018 and positioned on "Physical AI for Science": the @Pette smart pipettes and @Lab digital preparation suite serve sample prep, analysis and data management in life-science self-driving labs; closed a tens-of-millions-yuan Pre-A round in August 2026.
合碳智能
C12.ai (Hetan Intelligent Technology) · Since 2022
Shanghai embodied-AI company founded in 2022: Talos, a dual-arm mobile "physical AI scientist", uses in-house sensors and a proprietary vision-language-action architecture to operate existing instruments without retrofitting the lab; it ran for 50 days in BeiGene's lab, completing over 3,000 operations with no errors. Closed a ¥50M round in March 2026.
智能有机合成机器北京市重点实验室 · 罗三中团队（清华大学）
Tsinghua University · Since 2026
A Beijing Key Laboratory directed by Luo Sanzhong: self-designed microflow electrolysis cells and robotic arms form an integrated electrochemical synthesis platform that runs weighing, reagent dispensing, electrolysis testing and data capture with no human intervention, raising throughput about tenfold. Beijing names it among its first autonomous labs.
智能细胞化学重编程和克隆筛选平台 · 邓宏魁团队（北京大学干细胞研究中心）
Peking University Stem Cell Research Center · Since 2026
An autonomous-lab application built by Deng Hongkui's team with Beijing Dyna Laboratory Technology: a 6 m² platform running around the clock that fully automates China's home-grown chemical-reprogramming route from a fingertip blood sample to seed stem cells. Unveiled at ISSCR 2026 and at the July 2026 Autonomous Laboratory Conference.
科理新序
Shanghai Scinetics Intelligent Technology · Since 2026
Shanghai AI-for-Science company founded in 2026, pairing a scientific foundation model with physical AI to close a cognition-design-experiment-feedback-relearning loop: cross-modal models over DNA, RNA, protein structure and omics data, the STELLA agent already used by more than a thousand researchers, and a sandbox of 200-plus instruments for training agentic vision-language-action models to drive robot arms.
灵境智源
Shanghai Lingjing Zhiyuan Technology · Since 2025
Embodied-AI compute-base company incubated by the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Research Institute and based in Minhang's Zero-Point Bay since 2025, building a chip-OS-model stack for robot "brains". In May 2026 it led the release of what it calls the first embodied-AI biomedical laboratory operating system, developed with Shanghai Jiao Tong University and others to address safety risk, repetitive work and poor instrument coordination in biology labs.
北京人形机器人创新中心（慧思开物）
国家地方共建具身智能机器人创新中心 · Since 2023
State-local embodied-intelligence robot innovation centre founded in Yizhuang in November 2023, built on the Tien Kung humanoid platform and the Huisi Kaiwu general embodied-AI system. In July 2026 it released Labimus with the University of Science and Technology of China, billed as the first simulation and benchmarking platform for precision chemistry labs, replicating over 30 lab assets with weighing tolerances matched to ±0.001 g.
AI 自驱动电化学催化剂研发 CRO 自主实验室 · 程道建团队（北京化工大学）
Beijing University of Chemical Technology · Since 2024
A lights-out autonomous lab built by Cheng Daojian's group at BUCT's School of Chemical Engineering with Beijing Dyna Laboratory Technology and operated by Deep Intelligent Lab Technology: electrocatalyst work runs unattended and at high throughput from formulation design and raw-material preparation through synthesis to performance testing, closing the design-build-test-learn loop. Named in Beijing's first batch of AI-for-research exemplar cases.
沃时科技
Suzhou Hours Digital Technology · Since 2021
Suzhou Industrial Park company founded in 2021 combining AI with lab automation: the ChemPro.AI chemical computing platform drives in-house automated synthesis equipment through a design-synthesise-test loop for route discovery and automated synthesis of target molecules, alongside BioPro.AI and enzyme/protein engineering lines, from R&D centres in Suzhou and Chongqing.
中科华晟机器人
Zhongke Huasheng Robotics (Tianjin) · Since 2026
Embodied-AI composite-robot company established in Tianjin's Jinnan science park in 2026. Its Shenggang Shuangqing dual-arm robot, released that May, pairs an omnidirectional base with two seven-axis arms at ±0.02 mm visual positioning, taking over plate handling and pipetting from technicians in biopharmaceutical labs.
百奥几何
Beijing BioGeometry Biotechnology · Since 2021
Beijing AI-native biotech founded in 2021 that designs proteins and antibodies with two "micro-world models", GeoFlow for molecules and GeoCell for cells: an AI agent writes the experiment plan and schedules a high-throughput platform for expression, purification and functional assays, and results flow straight back into the models (its "RSI" dry-wet loop). It runs high-throughput protein labs in Beijing and Shanghai; its Series A passed US$100M in October 2026, partly to expand the automated lab.
涌生智能
Shenzhen Huada Yongsheng Intelligent Technology (MGI Tech) · Since 2026
Subsidiary set up by MGI Tech in Yantian, Shenzhen, in March 2026 to build dry-wet loop infrastructure and self-evolving labs for the life sciences. ProtoPilot, its multi-agent system released with Shanghai AI Lab, turns an experiment request into protocol, SOP and device code, runs it on real automation (cultures, colony PCR, plasmid construction, DNA assembly) and analyses and reruns failed rounds by itself; BioLab Bench scores such agents end to end.
天府·慧研
Sichuan Computer Research Institute (lead) with Sichuan University, UESTC, Tianfu Jiangxi Laboratory, Chengdu Intelligent Computing Center and Huawei · Since 2026
The experimental arm of Sichuan's Tianfu Huiyan AI-for-science platform, launched in Chengdu in October 2026 and built by the Sichuan Computer Research Institute with Sichuan University, UESTC, Tianfu Jiangxi Laboratory and others. A science foundation model predicts and screens, the lab synthesises and characterises, and the data flows back. It has online materials testing, fully automated operation modules and high-throughput formulation screening, plus a robot-arm gel-preparation rig and a 72-position nano-hydroxyapatite synthesis platform. The pin marks the lead institute.
津渡生科
Shenzhen Jindu Biomedical Technology · Since 2022
AI-for-bioscience company founded in 2022 and based in Nanshan, Shenzhen, since 2023. Its BioFord Agent uses literature, design, modelling and analysis agents to write experiment work orders and schedules sequencers, liquid handlers, PCR and plate readers and LC-MS across vendors around the clock, comparing predicted with measured values and recalibrating as it goes; it sits on the GeneLLM multi-omics model. Closed a Series A of nearly ¥100M in June 2026.
AutoDNA AI 原生科学实验室（上海交通大学）
Shanghai Jiao Tong University · Since 2025
AI-native autonomous lab for biomolecular operations at SJTU's Zhangjiang Institute for Advanced Study, built by its IPADS systems institute and chemistry school: a multi-agent system runs more than 20 instrument types through nucleic acid synthesis, transcription, amplification and sequencing, with people only restocking reagents and labware (Nature, November 2026; code open source).
加速联盟（Acceleration Consortium）
University of Toronto · Since 2019
200-member global consortium anchoring 30+ self-driving labs for sustainable materials and molecules across health, energy, and electronics.
CAPeX 先锋中心
DTU + 4 universities · Since 2022
Danish 13-year Pioneer Center accelerating Power-to-X catalyst and material discovery across DTU, Aalborg, Stanford, SLAC, Utrecht, and Toronto.
BIG-MAP / FULL-MAP
Battery2030+ consortium · Since 2020
Battery2030+ flagship Materials Acceleration Platform for battery interfaces. BIG-MAP closed Feb 2024; successor FULL-MAP runs 2025-2029.
美国能源部国家实验室
DOE (ARPA-E + CHIPS) · Since 2024
US federal SDL funding through ARPA-E's $40M catalyst programme and CHIPS R&D's $100M semiconductor-materials programme for autonomous chemistry and electronics discovery.
韩国 500 自主实验室计划
MOTIE AI+R&D Strategy · Since 2024
MOTIE's October 2024 AI+R&D Strategy commits Korea to 500 autonomous laboratories by 2030 across nanomaterials, catalysis, organic chemistry, and bioengineering.
MARVEL-AI 新加坡国家材料发现平台
A*STAR IMRE · METI, EnterpriseSG, EDB, NRF · Since 2026
Singapore's national materials discovery platform, announced on 27 Oct 2026 with an initial S$150M government investment: AI models identify promising materials and design experiments, and self-driving laboratories synthesise and test them, for metal alloys, polymers and organics, ceramics and composites. Led by A*STAR and anchored at its Institute of Materials Research and Engineering, with access for companies including start-ups and SMEs.
新加坡国立大学 AI4S · 材料数据铸造厂
NRF Singapore · NUS I-FIM + U Toronto · Since 2026
Singapore's National Research Foundation AI4S programme (launched June 2026); NUS leads four of eight inaugural projects, anchored by the Materials Data Foundry (Novoselov + Aspuru-Guzik, I-FIM) building an open AI-and-robotics autonomous lab to link synthesis protocols to real-world material performance.
英国 ARIA AI 科学家计划
ARIA · Since 2025
ARIA programme funding 12 AI Scientist projects testing autonomous hypothesis-to-experiment systems across drugs, batteries, quantum dots, and biology.
DiscoveryLabNL
TU/e · Since 2025
Dutch national infrastructure for AI-driven materials discovery, coordinated by TU/e, with energy materials as the first priority domain.
Big Chemistry
Radboud (lead) + TU/e, Groningen, AMOLF, Fontys · Since 2022
Dutch National Growth Fund consortium of five institutes (Radboud lead, TU/e, Groningen, AMOLF, Fontys) building AI-guided self-driving labs for sustainable industrial formulations.
PEPR DIADEM
CNRS + CEA (France 2030) · Since 2022
France 2030 programme run by CNRS, CEA, and seven academic partners, funding 51 projects that fuse AI with synthesis and characterisation across France.
A-Lab（伯克利实验室）
Berkeley / LBNL · Since 2023
Closed-loop robotic synthesis, characterisation, and ML-driven decision-making for inorganic solid-state materials, targeting 10-100x faster discovery.
Polybot（阿贡国家实验室）
Argonne (CNM) · Since 2024
AI-driven autonomous platform at Argonne CNM that synthesises, prints, and tests electronic polymer films for solar cells, biosensors, and recyclable devices.
卡内基梅隆云实验室
Carnegie Mellon · Since 2021
Remote-access 24/7 facility with 200+ instruments letting researchers anywhere design and run autonomous chemistry, biology, and materials experiments.
Coscientist（卡内基梅隆 Gomes 课题组）
CMU (Gomes Group) · Since 2023
LLM-driven agent from Gabe Gomes' group that reads literature, plans syntheses, and controls liquid-handling robots from natural-language prompts.
Abolhasani 课题组（北卡州立大学）
NC State · Since 2020
Self-driving fluidic lab combining microreactor flow chemistry, robotics, and AI to accelerate perovskite quantum dots and energy-relevant materials.
Genesis（查尔姆斯理工 King 课题组）
Chalmers (King Group) · Since 2020
Ross King's third-generation Robot Scientist programme pursuing fully automated hypothesis generation and testing across biology and chemistry.
Cooper 课题组 / 利物浦材料创新工厂
U Liverpool (MIF, opened 2017; CMD forerunner 2007) · Since 2017
Andy Cooper's mobile robot chemists roam the Materials Innovation Factory, autonomously running photocatalyst, porous-material, and CO₂-capture experiments; the £81M MIF opened in 2017, building on the robotic Centre for Materials Discovery running since 2007.
HELMA 亥姆霍兹加速联盟
Helmholtz Assn (KIT lead) · Since 2024
KIT-led Helmholtz consortium positioning Germany's autonomous SDLs for health, energy storage, catalysis, and electronics in smart data centres.
BioPACIFIC MIP
UCLA + UCSB (NSF MIP) · Since 2020
NSF Materials Innovation Platform at UCSB and UCLA offering free peer-reviewed access to automated, AI-driven synthesis and characterisation of bio-derived materials.
Cusp AI（剑桥总部）
Cusp AI (M. Welling co-founder) · Since 2024
AI-driven materials discovery startup (Max Welling co-founder) designing functional crystals on demand for carbon capture, batteries, PFAS removal, and semiconductors.
Cusp AI（阿姆斯特丹节点）
Cusp AI (Amsterdam Science Park) · Since 2024
Amsterdam Science Park (Lab42) node of CuspAI running the Welling-led ML stack for generative inverse design of functional materials.
AMADAP（埃尔朗根-纽伦堡大学）
FAU Erlangen · Since 2021
Brabec group platform spanning high-throughput synthesis, SPINBOT spin-coating, and the AMANDA device line to autonomously discover emerging photovoltaic materials.
NIMS 自主 AI 网络
NIMS + Tsukuba · Since 2015
NIMS-Tsukuba framework letting multiple autonomous AI labs spontaneously share data and coordinate searches across different material systems.
dLab（东京大学）
U Tokyo · Since 2025
Hitosugi-group digital lab chaining thin-film synthesis with XRD, Raman, conductivity, and optics for fully automated standardised materials data.
KAIST-POSCO 自主实验室
KAIST + POSCO · Since 2025
Dong-Hwa Seo's industry-academia autonomous lab with POSCO N.EX.T Hub cutting battery cathode discovery time by 93 percent.
KIST MARK 系统
KIST · Since 2024
KIST's robotic synthesis + characterisation + ML workflow for accelerated discovery across battery and functional materials.
首尔大学自主实验室生态
SNU / Jung Lab · Since 2026
Yousung Jung's group uses LLMs to predict material synthesisability, anchoring a wider SNU autonomous-lab cluster across batteries and catalysis.
Noël 课题组（阿姆斯特丹大学）
U Amsterdam · Since 2018
Flow chemistry group running RoboChem, an autonomous photocatalytic reaction platform that optimises continuous-flow photochemistry without human intervention.
DIFFER 自主能源材料发现（Süleyman Er）
DIFFER (NWO institute) · Since 2017
Computational group screening energy materials (redox-flow electrolytes, electrocatalysts) via high-throughput DFT plus ML over public chemical databases.
Lila Sciences
Lila.ai · Since 2023
Flagship Pioneering venture building Scientific Superintelligence: AI agents coupled to autonomous wet labs across therapeutics, materials, energy, and chemicals.
Medra AI
Medra, Inc. (Michelle Lee) · Since 2024
Physical AI scientists for life-science labs: vision-guided robot arms operating standard instruments end-to-end across gene editing, cell biology, and microbial discovery.
Periodic Labs
Periodic Labs · Since 2025
Stealth-emerged lab building AI scientists with paired autonomous laboratories, starting with materials physics: superconductors and semiconductor thermal materials.
LabGenius
LabGenius · Since 2019
Bermondsey biotech whose EVA platform closed-loops ML design with automated wet-lab cycles to engineer selectivity-enhanced antibodies for solid tumours.
诺华 MicroCycle
Novartis · Since 2024
Novartis Basel in-house self-driving lab integrating micro-scale synthesis, automated purification, real-time bioassays, and ML-driven compound design.
Chemspeed / SciY（布鲁克）
Bruker · Since 1998
Swiss lab-automation vendor selling modular robotic synthesis, formulation, and characterisation workflows for materials, pharma, and battery R&D.
弗劳恩霍夫 MAPs
Fraunhofer ISC · Since 2020
Fraunhofer ISC programme coupling robotic synthesis and characterisation with AI-driven design for glass, battery, and functional materials.
Emerald 云实验室
ECL · Since 2015
Remote-controlled cloud laboratory letting scientists design and run wet-lab experiments on 200+ instrument models via a unified software interface.
Ginkgo Bioworks
Ginkgo · Since 2015
Synthetic-biology platform offering autonomous strain-engineering foundries and cloud-lab access for antibody, enzyme, and cell-line programmes.
卡内基梅隆 AI 科学铸造厂
Carnegie Mellon · Since 2024
Carnegie Mellon initiative running the ASAP autonomous platform for AI-guided experiments in hard materials, chemistry, and biology.
Strateos
Strateos · Since 2013
Cloud-lab-as-a-service operating robotic San Diego and Menlo Park facilities for remote small-molecule, biologics, and synthetic-biology workflows.
Kebotix
Kebotix · Since 2017
Self-driving lab platform pairing generative chemistry, automated synthesis, and robotic characterisation for specialty-chemicals and advanced-materials discovery.
Arctoris
Arctoris · Since 2018
Oxford-based automated drug-discovery CRO running the Ulysses robotic platform for reproducible biochemical, cell, and molecular assay data.
Culture Biosciences
Culture Bio · Since 2019
Cloud-connected 250 mL bioreactor service for outsourced upstream bioprocess development with remote monitoring and bioprocess software.
Automata（LINQ）
Automata · Since 2023
LINQ platform orchestrates modular benchtop robotics with a node-based workflow canvas and Python SDK for genomics and assay screening.
Benchling
Benchling · Since 2014
Cloud R&D platform combining ELN, registry, inventory, and workflow tools for biotech, used by most large biopharma.
Artificial
Artificial · Since 2018
aLab Suite orchestrates instruments, robots, people, and data into closed-loop digital workflows for life-science labs (Palo Alto, USA · Microsoft M12-backed).
Synthace
Synthace · Since 2014
Digital experiment platform for designing, simulating, and executing high-dimensional multivariate experiments on lab automation hardware.
Unchained Labs（Stuntman）
Unchained Labs · Since 2016
Stuntman is a natural-language AI automation platform with flexible hardware for biologics, gene therapy, and reaction screening.
UniteLabs
UniteLabs · Since 2025
Python-based lab automation OS connecting 175+ instruments through one API for code-defined, version-controlled workflows.
Cenevo（Titian + Labguru）
Titian + Labguru merger · Since 2025
Post-merger entity behind Mosaic sample tracking and Labguru ELN/LIMS, integrating 150+ instruments across biopharma R&D.
HighRes + Opentrons
HighRes Biosolutions × Opentrons · Since 2005
Modular robotic workcells and Cellario scheduling software paired with Opentrons via a 2026 agent-to-agent AI workflow partnership.
Atinary
Atinary · Since 2019
SDLabs no-code platform pairing Bayesian and ML optimizers with robotic hardware for closed-loop chemistry and materials discovery.
ABB 机器人
ABB · Since 2023
Industrial robotics arm supplying GoFa and YuMi collaborative arms plus AVR autonomous mobile robots for multi-vendor lab workcells.
Jensen 课题组（麻省理工）
MIT · Since 2018
MIT ChemE group integrating flow reactors, robotics, online analytics, and machine learning into autonomous platforms for reaction discovery and process development.
Cronin 课题组 / Chemify（格拉斯哥大学）
U Glasgow · Since 2018
Glasgow group behind the Chemputer and chemputation: synthesis encoded as executable code on universal robotic platforms, commercialised through spinout Chemify.
Grzybowski 课题组 / IBS-CARS
UNIST + Polish Acad. Sci. · Since 2021
IBS Center for Algorithmic and Robotized Synthesis pairing AI retrosynthesis (Chematica/Synthia) with closed-loop chemical robotics.
MMLI / Burke 课题组（伊利诺伊大学）
UIUC · Since 2020
NSF-funded institute around Burke's iterative MIDA-boronate small-molecule synthesizer, closing the loop with AI agents like AlphaSynthesis.
Hein 实验室 / Telescope（不列颠哥伦比亚大学）
UBC · Since 2019
UBC spinout commercialising self-driving process-chemistry platforms (IvoryOS, DirectInject-LC) for pharma, critical minerals, and Acceleration Consortium partners.
Ley 课题组（剑桥大学）
U Cambridge · Since 2018
Cambridge group pioneering continuous-flow and machine-assisted synthesis for natural products and methodology, with four spinouts and 900+ publications.
Doyle 课题组（加州大学洛杉矶分校）
UCLA · Since 2018
UCLA catalysis group fusing nickel cross-coupling, photocatalysis, and machine-learning reaction optimisation through founding roles in BioLEC and C-CAS centres.
Hamilton 公司
Hamilton · Since 1980
Reno-based manufacturer of Microlab liquid-handling robots, process sensors, and automated sample-storage systems used across pharma and clinical labs.
Opentrons
Opentrons Labworks · Since 2014
Open-source liquid-handling robots and the Flex workstation plus OpentronsAI natural-language protocol design for genomics and proteomics labs.
Tecan 集团
Tecan (SIX: TECN) · Since 1995
Swiss-listed maker of Fluent and Freedom EVO liquid-handling platforms plus OEM components for diagnostics and life-science automation.
Peak Analysis & Automation
PAA (Grenova) · Since 1992
UK lab-automation integrator building modular robotic workcells with Overlord scheduling software for life-science and pharma throughput.
NSF 材料创新 AI 研究所
Cornell-led (Princeton, CCNY, BU) · Since 2025
First NSF AI institute dedicated to materials, coordinating closed-loop autonomous experimentation across Cornell, Princeton, CCNY, and Boston University.
Radical AI
Radical AI (Gerbrand Ceder, CSO) · Since 2024
AI agents coupled to a closed-loop robotic lab discovering inorganic materials, alloys, and electrolytes; CSO Gerbrand Ceder built LBNL's A-Lab.
Mattiq
Mattiq (ex-Northwestern, Mirkin) · Since 2023
Northwestern spinout running high-throughput combinatorial megalibrary synthesis of millions of nanomaterials per day to train AI for clean-energy catalysts.
加拿大国家研究委员会 BattMAP / BattPAP
National Research Council Canada · Since 2023
National Research Council Canada self-driving labs for battery-materials discovery and critical-mineral processing under the Critical Battery Materials Initiative.
AIChemy（英国化学 AI 枢纽）
U Liverpool + Imperial (EPSRC) · Since 2024
£12M EPSRC national hub (Liverpool + Imperial) developing AI-planned robotic and autonomous chemistry, including mobile robot scientists for exploratory synthesis.
Dunia Innovations
Dunia (GigaLab, Berlin) · Since 2022
Self-driving labs running the full design-make-test-analyse loop for electrocatalyst, battery, and CO2-conversion materials, scaling to a €280M Berlin GigaLab.
AURORA（瑞典皇家理工）
KTH Royal Institute of Technology · Since 2025
Modular robotic platform integrating automated synthesis, characterisation, and evaluation, demonstrated on metal-halide perovskites.
CELEST 自主电池实验室
KIT + Ulm + HIU · Since 2022
Fully automated, AI-planned battery-materials lab that autonomously synthesises, assembles, and cycles cells.
EPFL 自主实验室（LIAC）
EPFL (ISIC / LIAC) · Since 2022
Self-driving platform for nano- and advanced-materials synthesis with active-learning optimisation.
ChemLex
ChemLex (Sean Lin) · Since 2022
24/7 fully automated robotic synthesis line (~800 reactions/day) coupling AI to wet-lab chemistry for drug discovery.
理化学研究所 / 东京科学大学 Maholo 自主实验室
RIKEN BDR + Inst. Science Tokyo (JST) · Since 2022
JST-funded national self-driving lab (Maholo robotic-arm platform) for closed-loop materials discovery, with a prototyping lab at RIKEN BDR Kobe and a demonstrator at Institute of Science Tokyo.
产综研 AUTOkobo
AIST (Multi-Modal AI project) · Since 2023
AIST's Multi-Modal AI lab-automation initiative for autonomous experimentation, now spanning all seven AIST research departments.
KIMS 自主合金实验室
Korea Institute of Materials Science · Since 2025
Closed-loop alloy discovery (arc-melting to annealing to XRD) with reinforcement-learning optimisation.
KIER 智能实验室
Korea Institute of Energy Research · Since 2026
24-hour autonomous synthesis, analysis, and XRD for safety-critical energy and catalyst materials.
FutureHouse / Edison Scientific
FutureHouse (nonprofit) + Edison · Since 2023
AI-scientist agent stack (the Robin multi-agent discovery system) coupled to its own robotic wet lab; for-profit spinout Edison.
ASCEND
HZB + Fritz Haber Inst. (MPG) · Since 2026
BMFTR-funded consortium led by Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin and the Fritz Haber Institute (with BASF, Siemens Energy, Dunia Innovations, and TU Berlin/BasCat) running AI-guided self-driving labs, high-throughput characterisation, and digital twins to accelerate catalyst discovery for sustainable chemistry.
NSF 可编程云实验室测试平台
NSF + Astera Institute · Since 2026
NSF national network of AI-enabled programmable cloud laboratories: ~$380M to 20 teams over four years plus Astera Institute matching, anchored by nodes like Penn State's LATTICE thin-film SDL with Argonne.
SOLVE Chemistry
SOLVE Chemistry Ltd · Since 2024
London SDL flow lab pairing online-UHPLC high-throughput experimentation with Bayesian optimisation for predictive process chemistry and right-first-time scale-up.
Matter Lab（多伦多大学 / Vector 研究所）
University of Toronto / Vector Institute · Since 2017
Alán Aspuru-Guzik's group; originated the modern SDL field with ChemOS (2017) and spun out Kebotix, Atinary, and the Acceleration Consortium.
IMDEA 材料研究所自主实验室
IMDEA Materials Institute · Since 2022
Haranczyk group self-driving lab for automated polymer processing (melt and solution workflows), serving six Madrid research groups and the Materials-Commons EU network.
梨花女子大学 IMMS 自主实验室
Ewha Womans University / IMMS (NRL 2.0) · Since 2025
Korea's MSIT / NRL 2.0 national research laboratory at Ewha Womans University (director Hoi Ri Moon); a 330 m² self-driving lab with ten function-based workstations across five material classes, a Bayesian-optimisation and LLM-agent decision layer, moving to open-access user operation from 2028.
利兹大学工艺研究与开发研究所（IPRD）
Institute of Process Research and Development · Since 2012
Institute of Process Research and Development, University of Leeds.
Swiss Cat+
EPFL, ETHZ · Since 2020
ETH Domain-funded national catalysis infrastructure jointly operated by EPFL and ETH Zurich, combining robotic high-throughput experimentation, AI-guided experimental design, and automated workflows to enable self-driving laboratories for catalyst discovery and optimization across homogeneous and heterogeneous catalysis.
ODACell（乌普萨拉大学）
Ångström Advanced Battery Centre (ÅABC) · Uppsala University · Since 2022
Self-driving battery laboratory developed at Uppsala University's Ångström Advanced Battery Centre, integrating automated electrolyte formulation, robotic coin-cell assembly, in-line cycling, computer vision, and Bayesian optimization for closed-loop electrolyte discovery.
Aurora（Empa）
Empa (Battaglia Lab, Materials for Energy Conversion) · Since 2022
Battaglia Lab's autonomous robotic battery-materials platform automating electrolyte formulation, cell assembly, and cycling on >1200 cycler channels, with ontologized FAIR data management.
Ophelia（Empa）
Empa (Battaglia Lab, Materials for Energy Conversion) · Since 2024
Battaglia Lab platform running 8 parallel CO₂-electrolysis reactors for gas-diffusion electrodes with automated online gas and liquid product analysis, published as an open blueprint.
ARES（美国空军研究实验室）
US Air Force Research Laboratory (Maruyama) · Since 2016
The Air Force Research Laboratory's Autonomous Research System (Maruyama): ARES OS was the first major infrastructure package for SDL deployment, demonstrated on autonomous carbon-nanotube growth.
CAMEO（美国国家标准与技术研究院）
NIST (Kusne) + synchrotron beamlines · Since 2020
NIST's closed-loop autonomous system (Kusne) running Bayesian phase mapping jointly with property optimisation live on synchrotron beamlines, with opt-in human collaboration.
MINERVA（德国联邦材料研究与测试研究所）
BAM Berlin (Ruehle junior research group) · Since 2025
BAM's modular robotic platform (Rühle group) for synthesis, purification, and in-line characterisation of nano- and advanced materials (seven materials across five classes), with ELN/LIMS integration via OpenBIS.
BEAR（波士顿大学 Brown 实验室）
Boston University (Keith A. Brown / KABlab) · Since 2020
Keith Brown's Bayesian experimental autonomous researcher: closed-loop additive manufacturing and mechanical-design experiments, one of the field's flagship SDL architectures.
AI4Mat 计划 · Hip 实验室（南洋理工）
NTU Singapore (Kedar Hippalgaonkar) · Since 2018
Kedar Hippalgaonkar's initiative integrating AI, robotics, and agentically driven high-throughput experiments for functional energy and electronic materials, backed by a S$25M MTI Programmatic Award and the S$10M Mat-GDT platform.
ChemTech 实验室（诺丁汉大学）
University of Nottingham (Connor Taylor) · Since 2025
Connor Taylor's self-driving laboratory for drug discovery and chemical process development, funded through a £2M RAEng research fellowship.
MAITENA（CIC energiGUNE）
CIC energiGUNE · Since 2024
Automation and AI platform for inorganic energy materials combining automated co-precipitation, solvothermal, and sol-gel synthesis with XRD and electrochemical characterisation and active-learning experiment design.
QPillars
QPillars GmbH · Since 2024
Zurich startup making lab instruments agent-ready through MCP servers and SiLA 2 drivers, so AI copilots can turn natural-language requests into validated, reproducible instrument workflows.
AITHYRA（奥地利科学院）
Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) · Vienna BioCenter · Since 2024
Austrian Academy of Sciences institute for biomedical AI under founding director Michael Bronstein, building a closed-loop AI-driven robotics lab: vision-enabled liquid handlers, self-teaching robotic arms, and sensor-rich work cells under an AI orchestration layer, with 100 m² in phase I at the Marxbox and 400 m² in the purpose-built Vienna BioCenter building.
AI BioDesign（艾伦研究所）
Allen Institute + UW + Fred Hutch · Fund for Science and Technology · Since 2026
Open-science accelerator with the University of Washington and Fred Hutch designing proteins and genes that do not exist in nature; bench teams run massively parallel library experiments while a machine-learning team chooses each next round, scored on how much the models improved. Scale comes from parallelising inside the test tube rather than from robotics.
CircuLab（斯德哥尔摩大学）
Stockholm University · WISE Research Technology Platform · Since 2024
WISE Research Technology Platform at Stockholm University for circular and sustainable materials: automated synthesis and processing, real-time monitoring of emissions, hazardous chemicals and physicochemical change, and ML plus Bayesian-optimisation decision making across four clusters and about 20 instruments; open to academia, start-ups, and industry.
BESSY III（柏林亥姆霍兹中心）
Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) · Since 2022
HZB's 4th-generation soft-to-tender X-ray source for Berlin-Adlershof, planned from the ground up around intelligent autonomous experimentation, AI-supported sample synthesis and handling, and FAIR data, with synthesis and characterisation laboratories on the same integrated research campus; CDR due 2027, construction from 2032, operations mid-2030s.
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