Luis Villa

Celebrated International Lab Automation Day with a 24 hour hackathon at Studio 45 where be built MCP servers for robots and integrated them into agentic workflows. Folks flew in from Boston, Denver, Seattle, Houston and more to come together and build at the edge. #labautomation

ai + lab auto build day / mcp + agents @ studio 45 · Luma we're bringing together the best of the bay area ai, hardware, and bio communities to explore solving challenges in lab automation. **no pre-reqs. all…

f these topics are of interest to you, join us! It's FREE & open to the community: lu.ma/o2qz1j80

#labautomation #mcp #automation

Topics Include, the world's first lab automation mcp connected to hardware (or if you know of another, comment below!), testing agentic workflows between hypothesis generation & protocol generation, and the roles simulation software and digital twins can play in new builds.

In support of our lab auto hackathon on June 21st, we're hosting a Build Day/ Workshop on June 14th in San Francisco at Studio 45!

SF New Event Alert: Build in public, learn in public, level up as a community. It's never been easier to build and building is without a doubt the best way to learn. if the only constant in our industry is change, how are you making the space & time to keep up with these changes?

Just in time for the long weekend, thank you!

Which talk is this one?

The shirt is amazing, need one!

ai + lab auto 24hr hack @ studio 45 · Luma we're bringing together the best of the bay area ai, hardware, and bio communities to explore solving challenges in lab automation. **no pre-reqs. all…

Join us: lu.ma/3ys6obhi

You don't need to be an expert or a cracked engineer, you just need to show "ganas" (enthusiasm).

It's an opportunity to build, it shows initiative and it gets you out of your comfort zone. Work on a different problem for a day with a different set of tools and with folks across a broader skill set than you may to encounter day-to-day.

The number one question I get asked is, "how can I break into automation?" The number two question I get asked is, "how can I make that next leap?" My answer is generally the same, "Come to our hackathons." Why?

The goal with these hackathons and workshops is to give folks an opportunity to upskill, build community, but ultimately to give folks access to a space or equipment or knowledge they may otherwise struggle to find organically in an industry or academic setting.

The focus this time is on AI Agents (& maybe Digital Twins.) To support the hackathon, we're hosting a community workshop to help teach folks to use AI, build their own MCP servers and agentic workflows.

ai + lab auto 24hr hack @ studio 45 · Luma we're bringing together the best of the bay area ai, hardware, and bio communities to explore solving challenges in lab automation. **no pre-reqs. all…

We are co-hosting our third AI x Lab Automation hackathon in San Francisco to kick off International Lab Automation Day & SF Deep Tech Week: lu.ma/3ys6obhi

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Massive loss

Just lots of new tools, libraries & SDK’s. Need to start dedicating time to just keeping up but noticing that even the mega corps are struggling as well.

Unfortunately being heads down as an IC (for some reason VP's & founders still seem to have unlimited time even when they're heads down) means that even within that month or two, you miss out on a lot of research and updates.

Impossible to imagine a future where agents aren’t some of the first “workers” at startups.

Using @anthropic.com Claude Code and this is what agents should feel like day to day. Simple terminal, easy to prompt. Curious to see how it does with DI and self generation of Swagger comments. Vibe coding is here to stay.

It's clear when folks aren't familiar with or using the technologies they're hyping. You may have interviewed or spoken with 100 experts to arrive at a conclusion that supported your initial hunch but did you talk to the correct 100 people? I doubt it.

I've been hibernating since #SLAS, I've been grinding & pushing through professional & personal deadlines. Lab automation remains a domain that still requires a whimsical and dizzying array of skillsets. Currently using my first "free" day to read through a backlog of papers, blogs and code. 🥂

Best example of this are note takers for zoom meetings, yes someone could take notes but then that person never really feels plugged in because they have to take notes and then absorb later. Also each person is biased and may devalue items others find valuable

ChatGPT for generation to f a list of commonly used acronyms in domain Z vs domain Y is super clutch 😅

Self-driving laboratories, advanced immunotherapies and five more technologies to watch in 2025 Sustainability and artificial intelligence dominate our seventh annual round-up of exciting innovations.

Excellent to see self-driving laboratories as one of the technologies to watch in 2025: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I knew one day I’d have to watch powerful men burn the world down – I just didn’t expect them to be such losers

Can a headline alone be eligible for a Pulitzer?

Always happy to talk about lab automation! I had a lot of fun sitting down for this podcast, thanks for having me @nabilwrites.bsky.social

“You sit in between three of the biggest problems in the [biotech] industry.”

I love this insight from @lvilla.bsky.social – co-founder of Bay Area Lab Automators – on why a career in biotech lab automation is so compelling.

Catch the full conversation here: youtu.be/oT8VnQ_UNNo

This is rockstars level of organization on a budget, love it!