China's SDL ecosystem on a province map. Click a pin for details; all entries are listed as cards below.
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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); also published an AI-native autonomous lab system for biomolecular engineering.
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.