AI in Motion: Lab Automation Hardware Hack Showcase @ Studio 45
Join us after 24 hours of building! Teams spent the weekend applying the latest machine learning models to different hardware to solve challenges in lab automation.
Each team will showcase their project as well as pitch to win best build.
Teams will be pitching to judges
Jimmy is the CEO and Co-founder of Monomer Bio, with a mission to develops tools that explore the unknown universe of living cells that were previously thought impossible to reach.
Ale works at Fifty Years, a pre-seed/seed stage venture capital backing founders solving the world's biggest problems. She runs the 5050 program to help more scientists and engineers start deep tech startups.
Agenda
12:00p-1:00p - Welcome and walk around showcase
1:00p-1:45p - Final pitches
2:00 - Winners announced
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.
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