Planning With Natural Language
Speak or type your workflow. Willow drafts protocols, creates projects, schedules runs, and turns scientific intent into executable steps.
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Biology, Running
Continuously.
Intelligent robotics for cell culture automation.
Meet Associan™, the autonomous cell culture platform.
Guided by Willow, an AI agent that plans, monitors, and helps execute cell-culture workflows around the clock.
80–95% Less Manual Operation
Automate routine feeding, passaging, imaging, and plating. Scientists step in only for decisions, not execution — reclaiming nights and weekends without sacrificing quality.
Standardized & Consistent Results
AI-supervised workflows with precise liquid handling and intelligent scheduling deliver predictable confluency, morphology, and >95% batch-to-batch consistency — every action logged, timestamped, and reproducible.
Scalable & Versatile Cell Culture
Produce >1B cells per run (up to 45 T175 flasks) — or culture up to 45 distinct cell lines simultaneously. Same workcell supports both scale-up and diverse experimental workflows.
One Platform, End to End
Handle T-flasks and well plates within a single system — from expansion to assay-ready plates. Incubation, liquid handling, imaging, and decision-making orchestrated end-to-end, fully compatible with downstream automation.
An AI agent
Guiding every step of cell culture.
From protocol planning and simulation to monitoring and run decisions, Willow helps orchestrate the full cell-culture loop while scientists stay in control.
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Simulating With A Digital Twin
Validate timing, motion, resource use, and run sequence in a virtual workcell before a single tip moves.
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Monitoring With Computer Vision
Computer vision monitors robotic operations 24/7, detecting errors and anomalies in real time to protect every run.
Deciding With Quantification
Real-time cell analysis quantifies confluency and morphology, enabling the system to determine optimal next steps without human intervention.
Scientist in the loop —
as much or as little.
Run protocols fully autonomously, approve key decisions, or control steps manually. Associan™ adapts to the level of oversight each workflow requires.
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Willow running · no intervention
● AUTO
Full automation or assistive automation, built on the same core.
Associan™ runs complete cell-culture workflows around the clock. Teknician™ gives scientists and automation teams a desktop platform for AI-guided liquid handling, imaging, and protocol execution.
Associan™
Floor-Standing Workcell For Autonomous Cell Culture.
The robotic workcell that runs production-scale cell culture around the clock. Integrates the Teknician™ core with an automated incubator, refrigerator, heat bath, gripper, and waste-management — for true 24/7 autonomy.
- 45+ flasks · multi-brand
- >1B cells per run
- 24/7 hands-free operation
- Modular peripheral integration
Desktop platformTeknician™
Desktop Automation For Human-Guided Workflows.
A desktop platform for AI-guided liquid handling, imaging, and protocol execution. The same intelligent core that powers Associan™ — sized for the bench.
- AI-assisted protocol setup
- Integrated imaging + confluency
- Flasks (T75, T175) + plates
- Cross-system integration
"One person can orchestrate 4–5 robots at the same time, running 20–25 flasks alongside multiple plates in parallel. We can run the same or different cell lines across multiple protocols simultaneously. This level of speed and throughput is something I've never seen in a research lab."
Research Scientist, Carnegie Mellon University
Backed and built with the best in the field.
Transform Cell Culture in Your Lab.
See how AI-guided robotic cell culture increases throughput, improves consistency, and turns routine execution into continuous infrastructure.
We respond within 1–2 business days.