Zeon Systems recently launched!

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^{"AI-powered systems that use robotics to automate manual work in scientific labs."}

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^{TLDR: Zeon Systems turns natural language into lab automation. Scientists type their experiment in English. Their software programs robots to execute it.}

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‍Founded by Brontë Kolar & Tahir D'Mello

Brontë built electronic systems for electric aircraft and high-density battery packs before pivoting to computational biology research at UCSF, UC Berkeley, and Erasmus Medical Center.

Tahir has been building software and ML for science labs basically all his adult life, doing computational research at IIT, Yale and working in biotech and pharma across India and the US.

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Problem

The biggest scientific breakthroughs -- think Selman Waksman mining microbes for antibiotics or Akira Yoshino testing early lithium-ion batteries at Sony -- started in labs through painful, manual work. Decades later, discovery still relies on pipetting, weighing, and prepping by hand.

It’s inefficient, exhausting, and slows down discovery. Automation solutions exist, but are often $$$ or built for specific use cases.

They want to change that.

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Their Take

What if you could run an experiment by just typing it out?

That’s what they are building for: automation that’s usable by everyday scientists.

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The Zeon System 🦾

They sell a hardware + software system that runs lab experiments using off-the-shelf robotics. Labs receive a ready-to-run automation setup that includes:

• Their AI-powered software
• 2 off-the-shelf robotics arms with mounted depth cameras

How it works:

• Scientists describe protocols in plain English
• Zeon interprets them, detects lab tools using computer vision, and plans the execution
• The system generates and executes robotic code in real-time, adapting to the specific lab environment

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What’s Possible

They are already piloting with labs at UCSF and Stanford to:

• Run fluorescence screens for nanoparticles overnight
• Automate multichannel pipetting for clinical assays
• Dispose of biohazardous waste while researchers sleep

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Big Picture

Eventually, they want to enable labs that run themselves. Think self-driving labs on Mars or in the middle of the ocean doing science while humans dream. 🪐 🧪🧬

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Learn More

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^{🌐 Visit www.zeonsystems.ai to learn more.}

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^{👉 Know a scientific lab or company that should work with us? → Email us at founders@zeonsystems.ai}

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