Atinary
About
About Atinary
Atinary was founded in 2019 by Hermann Tribukait and Loïc Roch after work on accelerating materials discovery through closed-loop AI and robotics. SDLabs combines Bayesian optimisation and other machine-learning methods with laboratory instruments, allowing scientists to define objectives and let connected automation select and run successive experiments.
The company operates its own self-driving laboratory in Boston and integrates equipment from vendors including ABB, Agilent, Bruker, Chemspeed and Mettler-Toledo. Atinary is therefore tracked as robotics infrastructure rather than a laboratory-robot manufacturer: it provides the orchestration and learning layer that turns heterogeneous instruments and robot cells into adaptive experimental systems.
Deployments
- Operating use
2026-02-09 - Atinary operates two autonomous Scientific Discovery Factory platforms in its Boston self-driving laboratory. - Boston laboratory - Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Source
Funding
- 2026-08-11 - Strategic minority investment - Bruker invests in Atinary and expands self-driving-lab integration
Bruker made a minority investment in Atinary and expanded integration of SDLabs with Chemspeed robotics and Bruker analytical instruments. - source: businesswire.com
Investors
- Bruker - Lead - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-08-11
Team
- Hermann Tribukait - Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
- Loïc Roch - Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer - As co-founder and chief technology officer, he leads Atinary's AI and robotics technology for autonomous scientific experimentation.
Timeline
Events
- 2026-08-11 - Funding - Bruker invests in Atinary and expands self-driving-lab integration
The combined stack automates reagent handling, reactions, sampling and inline analysis in closed-loop experimental workflows. Atinary’s SDLabs platform selects experiments and learns from instrument results while Chemspeed hardware executes laboratory steps. The companies are extending an existing technical relationship into a strategic commercial collaboration.
Source - 2026-02-09 - Facility Opening - Atinary opens Boston self-driving laboratory
The lab houses two autonomous Scientific Discovery Factory platforms that design, execute, analyse and learn from physical experiments. Integrated equipment comes from ABB, Agilent, Bruker, Chemspeed and Mettler-Toledo. Initial work focuses on small-molecule synthesis and catalysis, with experiment results feeding back into machine-learning models to choose subsequent runs.
Source
Relations
Relationships
- Chemspeed Technologies AG
Technology Partner - Atinary and Chemspeed integrated SDLabs with Chemspeed automation platforms for bidirectional closed-loop control.