Robot on Rails

Summary

About

About Robot on Rails

Robot on Rails develops Undergrad, a lab operator robot that runs plain-language protocols on existing laboratory benches. The system uses vision to verify each step, logs the work automatically and is designed to connect instruments that otherwise operate as isolated stations.

The company presents the platform for molecular biology and other wet-lab workflows where scientists need repeatable physical handling without custom code. Robot on Rails has developed a protocol-library approach through its MassRobotics work. Instruments, protocols, vision checks and laboratory validation remain experiment-specific.

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Team

  • Chase Olle - Founder & CEO

Timeline

Events

  • 2025-12-16 - Partnership - Robot on Rails, OpenAI and Red Queen Bio test AI-directed wet-lab research

    The collaboration connected GPT-5 protocol design with Robot on Rails hardware executing molecular-cloning experiments on a conventional lab bench. The AI-generated protocol improved the target metric 79-fold, while robotic execution produced a 2.13-fold experimental improvement and reached 89% of the relative performance achieved by a human scientist. Absolute colony counts remained about ten times lower than the human baseline, providing important context on the gap between relative optimisation and end-to-end laboratory performance.

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Relations

Relationships

  • OpenAI

    AI Directed Wet Lab Research - Robot on Rails worked with OpenAI and Red Queen Bio on an AI-directed wet-lab molecular-cloning system.

  • Red Queen Bio

    Wet Lab Research Collaborator - Robot on Rails worked with Red Queen Bio and OpenAI on AI-directed molecular-cloning experiments.

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Shared workflows

Context tags

  • Autonomous lab execution - Workflow - Undergrad executes scientific protocols and verifies steps with vision.
  • Lab robotics systems - Peer Group - Undergrad is a robotic system designed to execute scientific laboratory protocols.
  • Natural-language robot control - Capability - Robot on Rails accepts plain-language protocol instructions without custom workflow code.