HBI speaks to Mostafa ElSayed, CEO of Automata Technologies, a London-based start-up offering robotic systems to lab operators. Automata’s machines are designed to automate lab processes that were previously difficult to automate, especially in genomics and microbiology. ElSayed tells us that Automata’s machines can increase throughput by up to 5x for certain types of tests and are already being used in the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium, and the US.
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