Sci-Fi in the Wet Lab: Building an Agentic, Self-Driving Cell Culture Lab with t

What happens when generative AI and data science step off the screen and directly into the physical wet lab?

In this talk and live demonstration, builder Dale Herzog reveals how open-source lab automation, modern generative AI, and data science pipelines are turning autonomous biology from science fiction into accessible reality. Leveraging a unique multidisciplinary background spanning mechanical CAD design, industrial automation, data science, and generative AI engineering, Dale demonstrates an end-to-end, closed-loop cell culture platform built around a modified Opentrons OT-1 liquid handling robot.

Attendees will see how the entire experiment lifecycle is automated and orchestrated without human intervention:

Agentic Generative AI Orchestration: LLM-driven agents ingest experimental hypotheses, generate executable liquid-handling protocols, and dynamically troubleshoot edge cases mid-run.

Multimodal Vision Feedback (VL

Ms): Vision-Language Models inspect microscopic assay imager