BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb 9, 2026--
At SLAS2026, Chemspeed Technologies, a leader in the automation and digitalization of R&D and QC laboratories, and SciY, a leader in scientific and laboratory management software focused on lab standardization and AI-readiness, today introduce their open Self‑Driving Lab (SDL) platform. Their Self-Driving Lab platform is designed to accelerate research and development (R&D), quality control (QC) and chemical and biomolecular manufacturing workflows. The SDL enables lab managers to operationalize autonomous, AI‑orchestrated experimentation through vendor‑agnostic integration that unites modular precision automation, scientific analysis and lab management software, complete lab digitization and an AI‑ready open data backbone.
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Today, many labs face significant challenges from siloed tools and integration gaps in heterogeneous lab environments that limit efficiency and scalability. The diversity of hardware and software systems often results in incomplete connectivity, incompatible data formats, and fragmented workflows. These constraints slow discovery, development and manufacturing QC processes, and hinder the transition towards autonomous AI‑enabled operations.
The Chemspeed/SciY open SDL platform provides this digital lab foundation and integrates the laboratory environment. Outstanding analytics, for NMR, IR/Raman, MS and X‑ray, ensures the traceable, quantitative data required in critical decisions. Chemspeed’s precision automation delivers modular, vendor‑agnostic control over complex laboratory workflows with deterministic, reproducible execution. SciY’s AI‑ready open data backbone unifies instruments and robotics data, workflow automation and orchestration with vendor‑agnostic FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable) data capture, curation, governance and ontology‑driven semantics.
“Vendor‑agnostic orchestration is key. With our open SDL, we enable decision‑making in closed‑loop design–make–test–analyze (DMTA) workflows towards continuous 24/7 operations,” said Bernd Gleixner, the President of Chemspeed. “We are delivering not only a platform, but a service engine that accelerates discovery, supports compliant scale‑up and increases throughput across customers’ value chains.”
“We are seeing strong market interest by leading pharmaceutical partners,” said Santi Dominguez, the President of SciY. “This confirms that customers are looking for open, readily deployable full stack SDLs, and we are partnering with them to scale autonomous operations across sites and use cases.”
Chemspeed and SciY are vendor-agnostics divisions of Bruker Corporation (Nasdaq: BRKR).
About Chemspeed
Chemspeed Technologies, a Bruker division, empowers scientists and engineers to accelerate discovery, development, and QC (including regulated markets) with modular robotics, automation platforms and standardized systems across the laboratory workflow. From single function benchtop systems to integrated, vendor agnostic self-driving labs, Chemspeed solutions address complex tasks in synthesis, compound management, sample preparation, formulation, and testing, and are designed for closed loop, AI-ready operations that improve data quality and productivity. For over 25 years, Chemspeed has served R&D and QC organizations in pharma & biotech, materials science, energy/battery, and consumer goods, and is headquartered in Switzerland. For more information, please visit: www.chemspeed.com
About SciY
SciY, a Bruker division, provides vendor‑agnostic digitalization and orchestration solutions that connect scientific instrumentation, automation hardware, and information systems across research, development, and GMP manufacturing. Our platform connects these systems and their data into a unified digital environment where information is ingested, standardized, re‑used and preserved according to FAIR principles. SciY combines expertise in data analysis, knowledge extraction, and automation with AI-powered experimentation to streamline traditionally time‑consuming processes. The result is an integrated, governed, and scalable environment to accelerate innovation, harmonize operations, de-risk scale-up and drive products to market faster with consistent quality. For more information, visit www.sciy.com.
The Chemspeed/SciY Self‑Driving Lab (SDL) platform integrates vendor‑agnostic R&D and QC lab automation, scientific and lab management software, lab digitization and AI‑orchestration on an open backbone to increase throughput and quality across value chains
LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s position hung by a thread on Monday as he tried to persuade his Labour Party lawmakers not to kick him out of his job after just a year and a half in office.
The prime minister lost his chief of staff on Sunday and is rapidly shedding support from Labour legislators after revelations about the relationship between former British Ambassador to Washington Peter Mandelson, appointed by Starmer, and the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
In a sign of the deepening crisis, Starmer's director of communications, Tim Allan, said he was quitting Monday to allow a new "team to be built.”
Starmer was due to address Labour lawmakers behind closed doors in an attempt to rebuild some of his badly weakened authority.
He told staff on Monday morning that the Mandelson scandal had hammered the public's respect for politicians, and “we must prove that politics can be a force for good.”
The political storm stems from Starmer's decision in 2024 to appoint Mandelson to Britain’s most important diplomatic post, despite knowing he had ties to Epstein.
Starmer fired Mandelson in September after emails were published showing that he maintained a friendship with Epstein after the financier’s 2008 conviction for sex offenses involving a minor. Critics say Starmer should have known better than to appoint Mandelson, 72, a contentious figure whose career has been studded with scandals over money or ethics.
A new trove of Epstein files released in the United States has brought more details about the relationship, and new pressure on Starmer.
Starmer apologized last week for “having believed Mandelson’s lies.”
He promised to release documentation related to Mandelson’s appointment, which the government says will show that Mandelson misled officials about his ties to Epstein.
Police are investigating Mandelson for potential misconduct in public office over documents suggesting he passed sensitive government information to Epstein a decade and a half ago. The offense carries a maximum sentence of life in prison.
Mandelson has not been arrested or charged, and does not face any allegations of sexual misconduct.
Starmer’s chief of staff, Morgan McSweeney, took the fall for the decision by quitting on Sunday, saying that “I advised the prime minister to make that appointment and I take full responsibility for that advice.”
McSweeney has been Starmer’s most important aide since he became Labour leader in 2020, and is considered a key architect of Labour’s landslide July 2024 election victory. But some in the party blame him for a series of missteps since then.
Some Labour officials hope that his departure will buy the prime minister time to rebuild trust with the party and the country. Senior lawmaker Emily Thornberry said McSweeney had become a “divisive figure” and his departure brought the opportunity for a reset.
She said Starmer is “a good leader in that he is strong and clear. I think that he needs to step up a bit more than he has.”
Others say McSweeney's departure leaves Starmer weak and isolated.
Opposition Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch said Starmer “has made bad decision after bad decision” and "his position now is untenable.”
Since winning office, Starmer has struggled to deliver promised economic growth, repair tattered public services and ease the cost of living. He pledged a return to honest government after 14 years of scandal-tarred Conservative rule, but has been beset by missteps and U-turns over welfare cuts and other unpopular policies.
Labour consistently lags behind the hard-right Reform UK party in opinion polls, and its failure to improve had sparked talk of a leadership challenge, even before the Mandelson revelations.
Under Britain’s parliamentary system, prime ministers can change without the need for a national election. If Starmer is challenged or resigns, it will trigger an election for the Labour leadership. The winner would become prime minister.
The Conservatives went through three prime ministers between national elections in 2019 and 2024. One, Liz Truss, lasted just 49 days in office.
Starmer was elected on a promise to end the political chaos that roiled the Conservatives’ final years in power. That proved easier said than done.
Labour lawmaker Clive Efford said Starmer’s critics should “be careful what you wish for.”
“I don’t think people took to the changes in prime minister when the Tories were in power," he told the BBC. “It didn't do them any good.”
The front door of 10 Downing Street in London, Monday, Feb. 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
FILE - British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, right, talks with Britain's ambassador to the United States Peter Mandelson during a welcome reception at the ambassador's residence on Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025 in Washington. (Carl Court/Pool Photo via AP, file)
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer talks with members of the audience after delivering a speech at Horntye Park Sports Complex in St Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, England, Thursday, Feb. 5, 2026. (Peter Nicholls/Pool Photo via AP)
