New York City is becoming a boomtown for the robot business as companies are developing and using them to provide massages, install roof shingles, automate medical testing and much more.
“New York benefits from being a global city… we have access to global capital customers in other cities,” said Jacob Hennessy, who runs the New York Robotics Network, a nonprofit that aims to make the city a hub for robot innovation. “We’re seeing a lot of companies relocate to New York … but we are trying to tell the story that you can start here.”
Opentrons, a Long Island City-based company that creates “robots for biologists,” is a good example of that.
The firm, whose name is a nod to the open-source technology and artificial intelligence it uses to program its electronics, was founded in Brooklyn in 2014. A decade later, Opentrons has notched a $1.8 billion valuation and attracted investors, including Bill Gates and billionaire tech founder and venture capitalist Vinod Khosla.
The company eliminates the manual labor, like pipetting, involved in conducting experiments and testing lab samples, so scientists are freed up for more high-level work.
The price of the robots starts at $10,000. With the advent of AI tools like ChatGPT, researchers can use Opentrons AI software to write prompts for robots in plain language — like requesting to run a COVID test — and the machine handles the rest. […]
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