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Medra
Medra builds Physical AI Scientists - robots that run biology experiments end to end. Its platform pairs a reasoning layer that designs and interprets experiments with vision-guided robots that pipette, culture cells, edit genes and log every step, all directed in plain English. Founded by Stanford robotics PhD Michelle Lee, Medra deploys workcells at biopharma partners including Genentech and Addition Therapeutics and is building one of the largest autonomous labs in the United States.
Edison Scientific
Edison Scientific is a San Francisco AI company building autonomous 'AI scientists' that can run hundreds of research tasks in parallel. Spun out of the nonprofit FutureHouse in 2025, its flagship product Kosmos compresses what researchers call six months of work into a single day, reading 1,500 papers and writing 42,000 lines of analysis code per run. The company raised $70M in seed funding at a $250M valuation in December 2025.