Bruker Announces Strategic Collaboration with Atinary Technologies to Advance Self-Driving Laboratories

Business

Bruker Announces Strategic Collaboration with Atinary Technologies to Advance Self-Driving Laboratories

2026-08-11 19:03 Last Updated At：19:10

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug 11, 2026--

Bruker Corporation (Nasdaq: BRKR) today announced an expanded strategic collaboration with Atinary Technologies Inc., the pioneer of Self-Driving Labs ® technologies and AI-driven R&D with applications in pharmaceuticals, chemicals, energy, and materials. Bruker also made a minority investment in Atinary. Financial details were not disclosed.

This press release features multimedia. View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260811179936/en/

Atinary intends to integrate Chemspeed configurable laboratory automation platforms, Bruker analytical instruments and SciY scientific software into its agentic AI workflows. Atinary’s code-free SDLabs ® platform applies AI agents and machine learning to design optimal experiments and deliver better and faster results with automated closed-loop Design-Make-Test-Analyze-Learn workflows. Running these integrated workflows generates high-quality, reproducible, and AI-ready datasets that are essential to train better models, increase success rates, and accelerate discovery.

Atinary and Chemspeed have established a joint demonstration laboratory at Chemspeed’s headquarters near Basel, Switzerland. Atinary’s Self-Driving Lab in Boston opened in early 2026 as a Scientific Data Factory to bring better molecules and products to market faster. The Atinary Lab includes Chemspeed robotics and Bruker benchtop NMR, as well as automation and measurement tools by other vendors, focusing on small-molecule synthesis and catalysis in pharmaceutical R&D and process development.

“Cross-coupling reactions have had a significant impact on the discovery and manufacturing of pharmaceuticals, as well as in other industries,” said Professor Stephen Buchwald, Camille Dreyfus Professor of Chemistry at MIT and Scientific Advisor to Atinary Technologies. “However, the full potential of this chemistry, particularly C-N coupling, remains untapped. Large parameter spaces, combining catalysts, ligands, bases, solvents, and temperature, are complex and difficult to navigate. Generating rigorous, reproducible, lab-validated datasets could lead to significant advances. I am excited to be a part of the Atinary team and to explore what is possible when their approaches are employed to tackle meaningful scientific challenges in their lab.”

"Atinary's mission is to augment humans with AI and robotics to accelerate scientific discovery exponentially and tackle key planetary challenges," said Dr. Hermann Tribukait, Co-Founder and CEO of Atinary Technologies. "Together with our team, ecosystem, and clients, we design and enable Self-Driving Labs as R&D flywheels, where every experiment makes the next one smarter, compounding the information from real-world lab data."

“Our strategic investment in Atinary advances Bruker’s goal to combine differentiated analytical technologies with lab automation, scientific software and AI-guided experimentation,” said Bernd Gleixner, President of the Chemspeed Division. “The Atinary SDLabs in Basel and Boston demonstrate closed-loop R&D workflows powered by agentic AI. We intend to build on this foundation by extending the collaboration to additional analytical solutions and customer applications.”

About Bruker Corporation – Leader of the Post-Genomic Era (Nasdaq: BRKR)

Bruker is enabling scientists and engineers to make breakthrough post-genomic discoveries and develop new applications that improve the quality of human life. Bruker’s high-performance scientific instruments and high-value analytical and diagnostic solutions enable scientists to explore life and materials at molecular, cellular, and microscopic levels. In close cooperation with our customers, Bruker is enabling innovation, improved productivity, and customer success in post-genomic life science molecular and cell biology research, in applied and biopharma applications, in microscopy, as well as in industrial and cleantech research, and semiconductor metrology in support of AI. Bruker offers differentiated, high-value life science and diagnostics systems and solutions in preclinical imaging, proteomics and multiomics, spatial and single-cell biology, structural and condensate biology, as well as in clinical microbiology and molecular diagnostics. For more information, please visit www.bruker.com.

About Atinary Technologies

Atinary Technologies is the pioneer of Self-Driving Labs ®, a term its founders coined in 2017. Atinary's mission is to augment humans with AI and robotics to drive a Moore's Law of Discovery, exponentially accelerating the discovery of breakthrough molecules and materials to tackle planetary challenges in health, energy, food, and sustainability. Atinary owns a vertically integrated technology stack and offers its agentic AI platform SDLabs® and lab-validated datasets. SDLabs users can explore vastly larger chemical spaces and run complex experiments faster than ever, unlocking results that are out of reach using traditional R&D methods, as demonstrated in published work with world-renowned companies and universities. Atinary's ecosystem partners include ABB Robotics, Agilent, AWS, Bruker, Chemspeed, and Mettler-Toledo. Headquartered in Menlo Park, California, with operations in Boston and Lausanne. Learn more at www.atinary.com and contact us at contact@atinary.com.

PHOTO ESSAY: A Texas Trump voter, struggling with cancer and medical bills, breaks party ranks

McALLEN, Texas (AP) — The Nov. 3 election is fast approaching at a moment when some Republican voters, frustrated by ever-rising prices, could turn on their party.

Cindy Banda, a Texan and three-time supporter of President Donald Trump, is one of them.

For Banda, 46, her political shift began after she was diagnosed with breast cancer.

For more than a year, through a mastectomy, chemotherapy and radiation treatment, the single mother with six children in her care had to stop working even as her medical debt rose beyond $25,000.

The experience forced her into a grueling day-to-day financial scramble.

Her goal? “Keep the house. Keep the cars. And just keep the kids stable.”

To do that costs roughly $7,000 a month, exacerbated the rising tide of other costs, chief among them gas and groceries.

Banda tries not to dwell on death and debt because, she says, “it’ll consume you.”

She smothers those thoughts beneath her bubbly demeanor and avoids being alone. But that truce, between her insistence on positivity and the fears that it covers, is brittle.

Certain thoughts still arrive uninvited. Banda’s late sister, Melissa, didn’t have life insurance when she was killed. Banda, who cares for Melissa’s three children in addition to three of her own, makes sure it’s a payment she never misses.

“Sometimes I think, and I shouldn’t think like this, but I’m worth more gone than here,” she said one day, her eyes red and welling beneath her blue eyeliner.

“Obviously, the goal is not that, the goal is to beat it,” she continued, “to keep the house and keep the cars.”

And so far she has, the generosity of others helping keep her just beyond the reach of each month’s tide of bills.

That’s included financial help from the father of her 9-year-old, as well as Banda’s own father. Her high school classmates fundraised by selling food from a roadside tent. Two GoFundMe fundraisers raised near $30,000.

Still, the months of uncertainty took their own sleepless toll, and she recently returned to work selling internet services to businesses door to door, just before the midterms.

A lifelong Christian, Banda had voted her anti-abortion stance in past elections.

She voted for Trump in each of his campaigns, but two years into his second term, she has found no respite from high prices.

So when James Talarico, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Texas, visited one of Banda’s fundraisers — speaking about his diabetes and his work in the Statehouse to lower the price of insulin — it moved her.

Talarico supports a law guaranteeing abortion access nationwide, which Banda has voted against for years. But after she slid into debt to stay alive, Banda’s anti-abortion concerns have been superseded by costs.

“Because it’s what I’m living,” she said. “I’m living it.”

Banda cast an early ballot for Talarico.

“Never voted Democrat before today!!” she wrote in a text with blue heart emoji.

This is a documentary photo story curated by AP photo editors.