AI in Motion: Lab Automation 24hr Hardware Hack
We're bringing together the best of the Bay Area AI, hardware, and bio communities to explore solving challenges in lab automation.
Everyone joining will be expected to demo something by end of the weekend.
We'll have some hardware, robots, and labware (parts list coming soon). **You can also bring your own.**
We welcome all skill levels and can support 100+ builders.
**You must be able to stay through demo on sunday to participate.
Timeline
02/24 Saturday
9:30a Check in + breakfast
10:00a Kickoff with speakers
11:00a Finalize teams
12:00p Hack + build #1
6:00p Dinner + round table talks
7:00p Hack + build #2
12:00a Midnight snack
02/25 Sunday
1030a Final submissions
12p-2p Pitching, judges, and showcase
**👉 Register for showcase here **
Thank you to our partners for helping make it happen
Studio45 is a clubhouse and coworking space for professionals building physical products
informal is a freelance collective for the best independent professionals in hardware and manufacturing. informal members work with companies at every scale to design, manufacture, and ship physical products.
Opentrons Robotics, a business unit of Opentrons Labworks, Inc., is the industry leader in flexible, user-friendly automation for life science labs. Our open-source ecosystem offers the scientific community the tools they need to automate experiments, share protocols and reproduce each other's results. Check out their AI beta release coming soon.
RunPod is a gpu cloud platform for training and scaling inference on ai models. cloud credits offerered to each team.
Community partners
Massmelt is a diverse set of hardware product development services dedicated to supporting organizations as they build their vision of the future.
Bay area lab automators is a community of scientists, engineers, and tinkerers working at the intersection of hardware, software, and lab innovation.
SF Hardware Meetup, community of 9,500+ hardware professionals meeting monthly to building meaningful connections
Monomer Bio has built a scientifically aware, automated cell development software platform. Their customers culture and engineer stem cells, T cells, and organoids to grow disease models as close as possible to human as well as to develop new cell and gene therapies. Scientists are able to 14x their concurrent culture-plate capacity per operator within 2 months of using the platform. Learn more at www.monomerbio.com.
Labsmore develops intuitive, automated, and versatile microscope platforms for both scientific research and commercial applications. Leveraging their open-source software stack, customizable hardware options, and seamless cloud services, their mission is to democratize imaging for ground breaking scientific experiments.
Cephla is a new spinout that builds open and scalable automated bespoke microscopes with the goal of accelerating discoveries and solutions. Cephla’s products are already being used in top research institutes, leading pharma and biotech companies and fast growing startups.
Prize partners
1517 Fund is an anti-establishment educational institution and VC firm backing founders at the earliest stages of their careers and companies. They launched their Flux Capacitor, 3 month venture fellowship with up to $100k in funding enabling scientists and academics to explore building moonshot science and startups.
5050 is a non dilutive program that helps great scientists and engineers become great founders and start indispensable companies.
If you want to help sponsor this event or volunteer day, send us a note.