Insilico Medicine deploys the first bipedal humanoid AI scientist in the fully-robotic drug discovery laboratory
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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 5-Sep-2025 03:11 ET (5-Sep-2025 07:11 GMT/UTC)
Cambridge, MA – March 5, 2025 – Today, Insilico Medicine, a clinical-stage biotechnology company pioneering generative AI for drug discovery and development, announced the deployment of the first bipedal humanoid in its AI-powered fully-robotic drug discovery laboratory. The humanoid, called “Supervisor” will be used for data acquisition and data generation for training of the embodied AI systems to learn the skills of human laboratory scientists. The work will be conducted by the Insilico Robotics team at Insilico Medicine. The humanoid will also immediately assist with lab tours, telepresence, tracking and lab supervision.
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