Atinary Collaborates with ABB Robotics to Enhance R&D Efficiency
Deeptech startup Atinary is joining forces with ABB Robotics to establish a self-driving laboratory in Boston. The initiative also involves key lab technology firms Mettler-Toledo and Agilent. Their goal is to create an automated research space that accelerates small-molecule synthesis, making it faster, more affordable, and less repetitive.
Combining AI and Robotics for Advanced Research
By integrating Atinary’s no-code AI platform with ABB’s robotics, the partnership offers chemists a physical environment to conduct experiments rapidly and potentially from a remote location. This innovation addresses the traditionally costly and slow nature of R&D, which often hampers progress despite AI assistance.
Revolutionizing Chemistry with Self-Driving Labs
Atinary’s Self-Driving Labs (SDLabs) enable easy deployment of machine learning without programming skills. The company claims this technology can accelerate the discovery and optimization of new chemical combinations by up to 100 times compared to conventional methods.
Impact Across Industries
This collaboration has the potential to significantly speed up materials discovery in fields such as health, environment, energy, and food production—areas critical to both human welfare and sustainable business growth.
“An example of accelerating disruption is Atinary,” says Manuel Gonzalez, managing partner at AgFunder. “The limiting factor is not idea creation, it is time—specifically the pace of R&D. Testing new materials, new ideas in the experimentation field is slow, expensive, and iterative."
Disclosure: AgFunderNews’ parent company AgFunder is an investor in Atinary.
Author’s summary: The partnership between Atinary and ABB Robotics promises to revolutionize chemical research by making experimentation significantly faster and more accessible through AI-powered automated labs.