Opentrons Flex™ Lab Robot Launches to Accelerate Bioautomation Across Thousands of Life Science Experiments
Summary
Fusing advanced robotics with a deep ecosystem of open-source software, the Flex is compatible with AI tools and has near-limitless potential to learn new protocols. While legacy laboratory robotics require extensive software knowledge and months of training, the Flex’s open-source design and accessible API make it attractive to scientists across the life sciences, especially those advancing generative AI. The U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory has purchased several OT-2s over the past couple of years, which have been a main component of our self-driving lab development. Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures which has invested in Opentrons since inception The Flex robot stands apart from legacy lab automation solutions with profound differentiators: • A fraction of rivals’ cost: With a total cost of ownership just 1/10th of its competitors, the Flex robot enables labs to extend their budgets 10 times further, making advanced automation accessible to more researchers. The user-friendly Flex robot adapts to experiments thanks to modular hardware and powerful software tools that simplify lab automation, reduce errors, and make transformative, reproducible research possible across the life sciences industry, and for the field of molecular biology in particular.