Tactus AI partners with UC San Diego engineering students on lab-robot gripper
Tactus partnered with a UC San Diego engineering capstone team on a next-generation laboratory-robot gripper.
Evidence notes
- A five-student UC San Diego MAE 156 team is designing a gripper for objects encountered in working laboratories.
- Tactus AI engineers, led by CTO Casey Laris, are guiding the project around clinical-lab safety, regulatory and ergonomic constraints.
- The gripper work targets manipulation needed for sample handling, instrument loading and specimen transport.
Company context
Developer of mobile semi-humanoid laboratory robots, workflow orchestration software and customer-validated robot skills.