The lab we are building
A self-driving lab for battery slurry manufacturing
Four stations, one robot, and an orchestrator: liquid handling, planetary mixing, blade coating, and capping run as a single automated loop with vision watching every step.
Platform
Battery manufacturing SDL platform
Execution and evaluation close around experiment design — pick-and-place moves the slurry between stations while vision-based monitoring follows it.
Hardware & software
Building the pieces that do not exist yet
A ROS2 library for SDL, custom drivers for lab equipment (PyARE312 over SiLA2), digital-twin collision checking, and in-house stations: capping, blade coating, and an automatic rheometer on an XZ robot.
In-line evaluation
Measuring without cutting the loop
Vision-based fluid property measurement during mixing, and AI-driven classification of heavy-edge coating profiles that recommends the next process parameters.
Orchestration
Orchestration and statistical planning
One orchestrator synchronizes the devices over a standard protocol; Bayesian optimization and AI-agent decisions pick the next search conditions.
