Warp Sciences emerges from stealth, to apply robotics to drug research
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Robotics moving into drug discovery labs means wet-lab work is starting to look like code — repeatable, automated, and schedulable. If Warp and peers can standardize this infrastructure, the bottleneck for new therapeutics shifts from bench capacity to data quality and model quality.
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