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

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.

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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.

Atinary Technologies

Atinary Self-Driving Lab integrating Chemspeed robotics, a Fourier 80 FT-NMR, and Atinary's SDLabs agentic AI platform into a closed-loop workflow. The system automates liquid and solid reagent addition, catalyst addition, reaction execution, sampling with filtration, and inline NMR analysis, across many chemical reactions, including Suzuki and Buchwald-Hartwig. Scientists control the platform via SDLabs, leveraging AI agents to design experiments, navigate molecular spaces, execute runs, visualize and interpret results, and act on AI-guided recommendations for the next experiments, compounding the information each cycle in an R&D flywheel. These integrated systems can solve challenges that are intractable with traditional methods.

PEREIRA, Colombia (AP) — The search for survivors in the rubble of Colombia’s powerful earthquake grew more desperate on Wednesday, two days after the quake brought down buildings, buckled roads and crushed cars.

The devastation has tested Colombia’s new President Abelardo de la Espriella and his government as it scrambles to respond to the natural disaster and civil society as it pushes to provide aid to the vulnerable communities most affected by the quake.

By Tuesday, de la Espriella said the 7.4 magnitude earthquake had killed at least 181 people and left 2,595 more injured in the west of the country. He said at least 195 remained missing, but civilian-run databases put that number at more than 4,000 Wednesday morning.

Teams continued to pick through the rubble overnight in the hardest-hit cities of Cali, Pereira, Manizales and Quibdo, as time ticked away for victims to be found — and rescued — alive.

Aid agencies consider the first 48 to 72 hours crucial for retrieving survivors, though that threshold can be extended if those trapped have access to food and water.

There have been fleeting moments of hope amid the devastation.

In hard-hit Pereira, rescuers pulled Daniela Largo alive from the rubble late Tuesday, capping a complex 12-hour rescue in which crews carved a small opening through the debris to free her pinned arm and a doctor administered IV fluids to stabilize her. Wrapped in a blue blanket, the young woman was carried to a waiting ambulance as firefighters embraced and onlookers erupted in cheers.

Across the coffee-growing region, among the areas worst affected by the quake, authorities have converted sports arenas, schools and other public buildings into temporary shelters for thousands of displaced Colombians. In Pereira and Cali, families have been sleeping in parks — some fearing aftershocks or the collapse of their damaged homes, others without homes to return to.

“We have the most important things: a roof over our heads, food, water and, in my case, medical care,” said Edith Penagos, 48, who was staying with her teenage son in one of the white tents set up in a Pereira park after the earthquake forced them from their apartment.

In many areas, the official response to the disaster has been complicated by the ongoing crises of deep poverty and civil warfare that has created waves of forced displacement for decades.

“This earthquake compounds an already severe humanitarian situation, and there is a need for increased support for the humanitarian response,” said Giovanni Rizzo, Colombia director for the Norwegian Refugee Council.

Many aid organizations were already on the ground at the epicenter of the quake in Colombia, supporting a 2016 peace accord between the government and leftist rebels, and responding to violence involving other armed groups that has persisted since then, particularly in Choco.

That presence allowed humanitarian workers to quickly pivot to disaster relief, said María José Torres, the U.N. resident coordinator in Colombia.

“We have a presence on the ground. Therefore, our ability to be there, present with the people, I think, has increased exponentially,” Torres said in a statement Tuesday.

At the same time, aid from other countries and nonprofits abroad continued to roll in.

On Wednesday, the State Department said it would send two search and rescue teams to Colombia that helped with rescue efforts in Venezuela just weeks before. The U.S. has also offered over $15 million in aid.

Mexico’s president has said she is prepared to send hundreds of search and health workers, tons of health supplies and other equipment.

On Tuesday afternoon, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele said his country would send two planes loaded with 100 tons of aid.

“Our prayers are with the families of the victims, the wounded and all the Colombian people,” Bukele wrote on X.

Suarez reported from Bogota, Colombia, and Janetsky reported from Mexico City. Associated Press writers Edith M. Lederer at the United Nations, Isabel DeBre in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Gabriela Aoun in San Diego contributed.

Rescue workers cut through debris as they attempt to rescue survivor Daniela Largo, who was trapped in the rubble the day after an earthquake struck Pereira, Colombia, Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

People camp out in a park two days after an earthquake damaged their homes in Pereira, Colombia, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Residentes embrace as rescue workers search through the rubble of their damaged home the day after an earthquake struck Cali, Colombia, Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Santiago Saldarriaga)

Rescue workers carry a survivor Daniela Largo after pulling her from the rubble the day after an earthquake struck Pereira, Colombia, Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)

Neighbors embrace as rescue workers search through the rubble of a collapsed apartment building the day after an earthquake struck Cali, Colombia, Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

Volunteers and rescue workers use buckets to remove debris of a collapsed building a day after an earthquake struck Cali, Colombia, Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Santiago Saldarriaga)

Patients from a clinic evacuated due to earthquake damage lie in beds at a temporary facility set up in a gymnasium at a nearby school in Cali, Colombia, Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Santiago Saldarriaga)

Rescue workers carry Diana Troncoso after pulling her from the rubble the day after an earthquake struck Cali, Colombia, Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia) CORRECTION: Changes city to Cali, not Pereira.