ABB Robotics Partners with XtalPi to Build Intelligent Automated Laboratories
ABB机器人与晶泰合作建立智能自动化实验室

ABB Robotics and XtalPi have entered a strategic partnership to produce a range of automated laboratory workstations in China. The new, automated laboratories will boost the productivity of R&D processes in biopharmaceuticals, chemical engineering and chemistry, and new energy materials.

ABB机器人与晶泰建立战略合作伙伴关系，在中国生产一系列自动化实验室工作站。新的自动化实验室将提高生物制药、化学化工以及新能源材料领域研发流程的生产力。

“Our collaboration with XtalPi marks another milestone for ABB’s collaborative robots in the life sciences sector,” said Jose-Manuel Collados, manager of Service Robotics Product Line at ABB Robotics. “ABB Robotics and XtalPi will radically advance lab research and development through automation that works side-by-side with people. By enabling pharma and biotech companies to develop new drugs faster and with less cost, ABB is helping to further research into disease prevention, creating healthier societies. Our new Open Innovation Lab for Life Science and Healthcare in Zhangjiang, Shanghai complements our work at our Life Sciences and Healthcare Lab at the Texas Medical Center Campus in Houston.”

ABB机器人服务机器人产品线经理Jose-Manuel Collados表示：“我们与晶泰的合作是ABB协作机器人在生命科学领域的又一个里程碑。ABB机器人和晶泰将通过与人类并肩工作的自动化从根本上推进实验室研究和开发。通过帮助制药和生物技术公司更快、更低成本地开发新药，ABB正在帮助进一步研究疾病预防，创造更健康的社会。我们在上海张江新建的生命科学和医疗保健开放创新实验室补充了我们在休斯顿德克萨斯医学中心园区生命科学和医疗保健实验室的工作。”

XtalPi is dedicated to driving intelligent and digital transformation in the life science and new materials in the chemicals industry. In 2022, the AI tech company bought over 100 GoFa cobots to create automated laboratory workstations at its testing facility in Shanghai, China. This year, XtalPi officially launched the automation-centric brand XtalPi Intelligent Automation with the purpose of aiding researchers through automation equipment. Together with ABB Robotics, XtalPi Intelligent Automation is using GoFa cobots to automate the synthesis and crystallization processes involved in developing new drugs and materials for its target industries.

晶泰致力于推动生命科学和化工新材料领域的智能化、数字化转型。2022年，这家人工智能科技公司购买了100多台GoFa协作机器人，在其位于中国上海的测试设施中创建自动化实验室工作站。今年，晶泰科技正式推出以自动化为核心的品牌晶泰智能自动化，旨在通过自动化设备帮助研究人员。晶泰智能自动化与ABB机器人合作，使用GoFa协作机器人实现为其目标行业开发新药物和材料所涉及的合成和结晶过程的自动化。

The automated laboratory workstations can be customized to meet specific requirements, using different modules to complete various experiment steps. ABB’s GoFa cobots take on repetitive, manual tasks, while also working non-stop, accelerating the pace of experimentation. The large volumes of high-quality data generated will help to boost the efficiency of the Design-Make-Test-Analyze research cycle and provide a solid foundation for driving AI for science.

自动化实验室工作站可以定制以满足特定要求，使用不同的模块来完成各种实验步骤。 ABB的GoFa协作机器人承担重复性手动任务，同时不间断工作，加快了实验速度。生成的大量高质量数据将有助于提高设计-制造-测试-分析研究周期的效率，并为推动人工智能科学发展提供坚实的基础。

The GoFa cobots are used by XtalPi Intelligent Automation to develop preparation workstations, diluting and filtration workstations, reaction workstations, UPLC testing workstations, glovebox workstations, sample warehouses and Automated Guided Vehicles (AGV) to make lab research and development faster and more efficient.

晶泰智能自动化采用GoFa协作机器人开发制备工作站、稀释过滤工作站、反应工作站、UPLC测试工作站、手套箱工作站、样品仓库和自动导引车（AGV），使实验室研发更快、更高效。

Each automated workstation can perform hundreds of different experiments, with ABB’s GoFa cobots operating in a range of challenging environments, including glove boxes – with no moisture or oxygen– while performing intricate tasks such as opening lids and the placement of lab equipment, liquid handling, sample addition, filtration, dilution, magnetic stirring, rapid sampling and UPLC testing, with minimal supervision required. AMR’s equipped with GoFa cobots transfer samples automatically between workstations, increasing efficiency while further reducing costs.

每个自动化工作站可以执行数百种不同的实验，ABB的GoFa协作机器人可以在一系列具有挑战性的环境中运行，包括手套箱（没有水分或氧气），同时执行复杂的任务，例如打开盖子和放置实验室设备、液体处理、样品添加、过滤、稀释、磁力搅拌、快速采样和UPLC测试，只需最少的监督。AMR配备了GoFa协作机器人，可在工作站之间自动传输样品，提高效率，同时进一步降低成本。

Equipped with a GoFa cobot and four rotating columns, automated sample warehouses provide compact and efficient storage and retrieval for laboratory reagents, making the process more efficient and entirely traceable.

自动化样品仓库配备了GoFa协作机器人和四个旋转柱，为实验室试剂提供紧凑高效的存储和检索，使流程更加高效且完全可追溯。

Chenxi Zhang, Director of Automation Product Management at XtalPi, said “Through partnering with ABB, we can increase efficiency in laboratories by implementing a human-robot integration model. We hope to combine XtalPi’s intelligent software system and industry experience with ABB’s expertise in robotics to bring more innovative solutions to the pharmaceutical industry, which will in turn expand the usage of automation and robots in the R&D process and help automate laboratories.”

晶泰科技自动化产品管理总监张晨曦表示：“通过与ABB合作，我们可以采用人机协作的模式来提高实验室的效率。我们希望将晶泰的智能软件系统和行业经验与ABB在机器人领域的专业优势相结合，为制药行业带来更多创新解决方案，扩大自动化和机器人在研发过程中的使用，帮助实验室迈向自动化之旅。

This is ABB Robotics’ latest project in the lab automation market, which is seeing significant growth with a revenue of USD 5.1 billion in 2022 expected to rise to USD 7.1 billion in 2028.

这是ABB机器人在实验室自动化市场的最新项目，该市场正在大幅增长，2022年收入将达到51亿美元，预计到2028年将增至71亿美元。