01 · APEX Lab · Carnegie Mellon

A mobile manipulator for automated science

A robot that moves through a working laboratory and operates instruments so scientists can spend less time on repetition.

Role

Robotics engineer · autonomy & integration

Year

2026

APEX Lab team with a mobile manipulation robot in a laboratory

In one sentence

The team validated autonomous interaction with laboratory equipment during the Spring Validation Demo—an important step toward repeatable, end-to-end experiments.

01 · The problem

Why this mattered

Modern labs contain powerful instruments, but samples still move between many of them by hand. The goal is to connect those islands of automation without rebuilding the laboratory around a robot.

02 · My work

From idea to system

I work across autonomy and system integration: turning a high-level experimental workflow into navigation, manipulation, and reliable equipment interactions on a mobile platform.

03 · The result

What moved

The team validated autonomous interaction with laboratory equipment during the Spring Validation Demo—an important step toward repeatable, end-to-end experiments.

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