September 23, 2026
Automata Featured in Best of British Business 2026
We’re proud to be featured in Business Reporter’s Best of British Business 2026, a campaign highlighting British companies helping to shape the future of their industries.
The feature, The Future of Scientific Discovery Starts With AI-Ready Labs, which also appears in The Independent, explores a challenge facing life sciences organizations around the world. AI is rapidly changing how researchers analyze data and identify what to test, but many physical labs are not yet equipped to put that intelligence into action at scale.
In the accompanying film, we explain why preparing labs for AI requires more than adding individual robots or automating isolated tasks. Instruments, workflows and data must operate as part of a connected system, producing the structured information and scientific context that AI applications need.
Connecting the physical lab and digital lab
This is the challenge Automata was built to address.
Our approach rests on three principles: integration across instruments and vendors, tools that scientists and automation specialists can both use, and structured, open data infrastructure that prepares labs for AI agents.
These principles come together in LINQ, our integrated lab automation platform. It unifies modular hardware, intelligent orchestration software and open data infrastructure in one architecture to connect and coordinate the lab.
Rather than tying automation to a single vendor or fixed workcell, LINQ connects compatible technologies across manufacturers, orchestrates workflows across the lab, and captures the data, metadata and context during execution. This open, adaptable architecture allows labs to build around the technology they already use, while creating the foundation for future scientific and AI requirements.
The feature reflects a principle that continues to shape our work: AI readiness begins in the physical lab. Models can only influence experimentation at scale when the lab can execute reliably and return usable, contextualized data.
Being featured in Best of British Business gives us an opportunity to bring greater attention to the physical infrastructure behind AI-enabled science.
From our base in London, we are building infrastructure designed to support scientific organizations across the world, helping connect advances in AI with the experiments and data generated in the physical lab.
