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自律実験室の成長

初公開年ごとの累積数

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新規 cumulative +7 lab-automation roots before 2014

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20267

AI BioDesign (Allen Institute)

Allen Institute + UW + Fred Hutch · Fund for Science and Technology · biology

KIER Smart Laboratory

Korea Institute of Energy Research · energy

SNU SDL Ecosystem

SNU / Jung Lab · cross-domain

AI-Assisted Materials Discovery Institute

Tsinghua University (Omar Yaghi) · materials

構想 / 計画中

HZB + Fritz Haber Inst. (MPG) · chemistry

構想 / 計画中

€30M / 5 yrs (BMFTR)

NSF PCL Test Bed

NSF + Astera Institute · cross-domain

構想 / 計画中

NUS AI4S · Materials Data Foundry

NRF Singapore · NUS I-FIM + U Toronto · materials

構想 / 計画中

S$120M (NRF AI4S, 8 projects)

202513

マイルストーン

★ MINERVA D ELN/LIMS integration via OpenBIS — the data layer built in

KTH Royal Institute of Technology · materials

University of Nottingham (Connor Taylor) · cross-domain

£2M (RAEng fellowship)

U Tokyo · materials

KAIST-POSCO Autonomous Lab

KAIST + POSCO · batteries

KIMS Autonomous Alloy Lab

Korea Institute of Materials Science · materials

Periodic Labs · materials

Cenevo (Titian + Labguru)

Titian + Labguru merger · orchestration

UniteLabs · orchestration

TU/e · materials

構想 / 計画中

€30M (planned)

Ewha IMMS Self-Driving Lab

Ewha Womans University / IMMS (NRL 2.0) · materials

KRW 114B (~$83M) / 10 yrs · MSIT+MOE+Ewha

BAM Berlin (Ruehle junior research group) · materials

NSF AI Institute for Materials Innovation

Cornell-led (Princeton, CCNY, BU) · materials

$20M (NSF, 2025)

UK ARIA AI Scientists

ARIA · cross-domain

202421

マイルストーン

★ MicroCycle S Integration with existing industrial (Novartis) infrastructure ★ RoboChem G Multiscale operation in flow — photocatalytic optimization and scale-up

Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW) · Vienna BioCenter · biology

試作 / パイロット

€150M / 12 yrs (Boehringer Ingelheim Stiftung)

Stockholm University · WISE Research Technology Platform · materials

WISE + Stockholm University (part of SEK 136M over 4 platforms)

KIST MARK System

KIST · chemistry

試作 / パイロット

MAITENA (CIC energiGUNE)

CIC energiGUNE · energy

Empa (Battaglia Lab, Materials for Energy Conversion) · energy

Argonne (CNM) · materials

SurFF / Uni-MOF (Wang Group)

Tsinghua University · materials

ByteDance Seed AI4S

ByteDance · drug-discovery

CMU AI Science Foundry

Carnegie Mellon · cross-domain

Cusp AI (Amsterdam node)

Cusp AI (Amsterdam Science Park) · materials

Part of $520M val

Cusp AI (Cambridge HQ)

Cusp AI (M. Welling co-founder) · materials

$100M+ Series A · $520M val

Deep Principle 深度原理

Deep Principle · drug-discovery

Medra, Inc. (Michelle Lee) · drug-discovery

$63M total (Series A Dec 2025)

Novartis MicroCycle

Novartis · drug-discovery

Radical AI (Gerbrand Ceder, CSO) · materials

$55M seed (2025, RTX + NVIDIA)

SOLVE Chemistry

SOLVE Chemistry Ltd · chemistry

QPillars GmbH · orchestration

AIChemy (UK AI for Chemistry Hub)

U Liverpool + Imperial (EPSRC) · chemistry

£12M EPSRC (+£19M partner)

HELMA (Helmholtz Acceleration Alliance)

Helmholtz Assn (KIT lead) · cross-domain

Internal Helmholtz funding

Korea 500 SDL Initiative

MOTIE AI+R&D Strategy · cross-domain

US DOE National Labs

DOE (ARPA-E + CHIPS) · materials

202310

マイルストーン

★ AlphaFlow G Variable-process multistep nanoparticle optimization in flow ★ FINALES SD Decentralized experimental + simulation control; BattINFO ontology for data capture ★ A-Lab G Intensive solids handling — solid-state synthesis of complex powders ★ CoScientist GD LLM-based experimental design, planning, and execution ★ AMD Platform G Closed-loop multistep synthesis with automatic process rectification

Berkeley / LBNL · materials

CMU (Gomes Group) · chemistry

FutureHouse / Edison Scientific

FutureHouse (nonprofit) + Edison · biology

試作 / パイロット

$70M (Edison, 2025, ~$250M val)

Lila.ai · drug-discovery

Mattiq (ex-Northwestern, Mirkin) · materials

ABB · orchestration

Automata (LINQ)

Automata · orchestration

AIST (Multi-Modal AI project) · cross-domain

NRC BattMAP / BattPAP

National Research Council Canada · batteries

Federal (Critical Minerals Strategy)

Shenzhen Synthetic Biology Infrastructure

CAS SIAT · biology

National major RI

202214

マイルストーン

★ Reconfigurable flow (Nambiar et al.) G Online reconfiguration of flow chemistry systems

Empa (Battaglia Lab, Materials for Energy Conversion) · batteries

CELEST Autonomous Battery Lab

KIT + Ulm + HIU · batteries

DeepH (Duan Group)

Tsinghua University · materials

EPFL Self-Driving Lab (LIAC)

EPFL (ISIC / LIAC) · materials

IMDEA Materials SDL

IMDEA Materials Institute · materials

Jun Jiang Group / ChemAgents + Robot Chemist

USTC Hefei (Jun Jiang) · chemistry

Ångström Advanced Battery Centre (ÅABC) · Uppsala University · batteries

ChemLex (Sean Lin) · drug-discovery

$45M (2025, Granite Asia)

Dunia Innovations

Dunia (GigaLab, Berlin) · energy

€10.6M seed · €280M GigaLab

Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin (HZB) · materials

構想 / 計画中

≈€900M construction (est., 2020 prices)

Radboud (lead) + TU/e, Groningen, AMOLF, Fontys · chemistry

CAPeX Pioneer Center

DTU + 4 universities · energy

€40M / 13 yrs

CNRS + CEA (France 2030) · materials

RIKEN / IST Maholo SDL

RIKEN BDR + Inst. Science Tokyo (JST) · materials

~¥1.1B (~$7.3M JST)

20215

マイルストーン

★ AMANDA SD Multiplatform control architecture; data and hardware integration structuring

FAU Erlangen · materials

試作 / パイロット

Carnegie Mellon · cross-domain

Grzybowski Group / IBS-CARS

UNIST + Polish Acad. Sci. · chemistry

Chematica/Synthia

Qingkui 青葵智造

Qingkui · chemistry

Yongjiang Lab 甬江实验室

Provincial (Ningbo) · chemistry

202012

マイルストーン

★ Mobile Robot Chemist GS Extensibility through mechanical training; physical agent decoupled from apparatus scaling ★ CAMEO G Opt-in human collaboration; joint phase mapping and property optimization at the beamline ★ MAOSIC S First cloud-SDL demonstration — remote operation

NC State · chemistry

BEAR (Brown Lab, BU)

Boston University (Keith A. Brown / KABlab) · materials

Chalmers (King Group) · biology

試作 / パイロット

MAOSIC (CUHK-Shenzhen)

CUHK-Shenzhen / AIRS (Xi Zhu) · materials

試作 / パイロット

MMLI / Burke Group

UIUC · chemistry

Shanghai AI Laboratory

National AI Lab · cross-domain

EPFL, ETHZ · chemistry

ZJU iBioFoundry + iChemFoundry

Zhejiang University Hangzhou Innovation Center · cross-domain

Fraunhofer MAPs

Fraunhofer ISC · materials

BIG-MAP / FULL-MAP

Battery2030+ consortium · batteries

€40M (H2020+HE)

UCLA + UCSB (NSF MIP) · biomaterials

$43.5M (DMR-1933487 + DMR-2445868)

NIST (Kusne) + synchrotron beamlines · materials

20197

Hein Lab / Telescope

UBC · chemistry

Telescope Innovations

Jiageng Innovation Lab 嘉庚创新实验室

Xiamen University / Fujian Province · materials

Culture Biosciences

Culture Bio · biology

LabGenius · biology

MegaRobo 镁伽科技

MegaRobo Technologies · cross-domain

~$300M (Series C/D)

Atinary · orchestration

Acceleration Consortium

University of Toronto · chemistry

$500M (CFREF+matched)

20189

マイルストーン

★ Chemputer G Device and protocol abstraction — chemistry digitalized as executable code

AI4Mat Initiative | Hip Lab

NTU Singapore (Kedar Hippalgaonkar) · materials

S$35M (MTI + Mat-GDT)

Cronin Group / Chemify

U Glasgow · chemistry

Chemify (startup)

UCLA · chemistry

MIT · chemistry

Science 2023: 312 molecules

U Cambridge · chemistry

Flow + PAT pioneer

U Amsterdam · chemistry

Arctoris · drug-discovery

DP Technology / Bohrium 深势科技

DP Technology · materials

Artificial · orchestration

20174

Cooper Group / MIF Liverpool

U Liverpool (MIF, opened 2017; CMD forerunner 2007) · materials

£81M MIF (Unilever £25M + UKRPIF £11M)

DIFFER Autonomous Energy Materials Discovery (Süleyman Er)

DIFFER (NWO institute) · energy

University of Toronto / Vector Institute · cross-domain

Kebotix · materials

$23.7M Series B

20162

マイルストーン

★ ARES OS D First major infrastructure package for SDL deployment; proper database organization of experimental data

Unchained Labs (Stuntman)

Unchained Labs · orchestration

US Air Force Research Laboratory (Maruyama) · materials

20154

NIMS Autonomous AI Network

NIMS + Tsukuba · materials

試作 / パイロット

Emerald Cloud Lab

ECL · cross-domain

Ginkgo Bioworks

Ginkgo · biology

XtalPi 晶泰科技

XtalPi (HKEX) · drug-discovery

HK$47B pipeline

20143

Opentrons Labworks · cross-domain

Benchling · orchestration

$412M · $6B val

Synthace · orchestration

20131

Strateos · drug-discovery

20121

Institute of Process Research and Development · chemistry

>£15M / 5 years

20051

HighRes + Opentrons

HighRes Biosolutions × Opentrons · orchestration

試作 / パイロット

19981

Chemspeed / SciY

Bruker · cross-domain

19951

Tecan (SIX: TECN) · cross-domain

19921

Peak Analysis & Automation

PAA (Grenova) · cross-domain

19801

Hamilton Company

Hamilton · cross-domain