{"id":22744,"date":"2024-03-14T12:10:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T12:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.leibniz-inm.de\/?page_id=22744"},"modified":"2026-09-10T13:47:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T13:47:49","slug":"accelerated-research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.leibniz-inm.de\/en\/research\/core-facilities\/accelerated-research\/","title":{"rendered":"Accelerated Research Foundry"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Using automation to build New Materials at the interface of Synthetic Biology, Material and Computer Sciences<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Leibniz-INM Accelerated Research Foundry (ARF) is a research and service automation laboratory developing methods at the interface between Biofoundries and Materials Acceleration Platforms (MAPs).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The facility is a modular, fully integrated system steered by dynamic scheduling software, with labware moved between instruments by a robotic arm travelling along a central track. Through research and service, we aim to grow into a versatile, modular self-driving laboratory (SDL): one platform that closes the design\u2013build\u2013test\u2013learn loop across data, materials, organisms, biomaterials, automation and artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Key technologies include an acoustic ejection liquid handler for nanoliter dispensing, a liquid-handling robot with an integrated illumination device for hydrogel photo-crosslinking and optogenetic induction of cells, and equipment for automated cloning and microbiological culturing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ARF is currently moving from its testing phase into operation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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