Menlo Park, USA and Lausanne, Switzerland – Atinary, the pioneer in Self-Driving Labs® has been selected as a 2026 Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum. The company joins an elite global group of leading technology start-ups recognized for their transformative potential and commitment to addressing major global challenges.
Atinary is redefining the R&D paradigm by augmenting humans with AI and robotics to accelerate scientific discovery exponentially to tackle planetary challenges in health, energy, and sustainability. Atinary’s cloud-based, code-free, and agentic AI platform, SDLabs®, enables a seamless transition from human-driven R&D to AI-driven and data-driven experimentation, executing the Design-Make-Test-Analyze and Learn (DMTA+L) closed-loop. By replacing traditional, linear experimentation workflows with a more efficient and systematic search of huge combinatorial spaces further enhanced with automated self-driving capabilities, Atinary compresses research and discovery timelines from decades to weeks.
Atinary launched its new Self-Driving Lab in Boston, Massachusetts. The Atinary Lab marks a critical step in moving AI beyond simulation and software into the physical world, executing scientific experiments, enabling faster, more reliable discovery across chemistry, materials, and pharmaceutical R&D. As a Technology Pioneer, Atinary will actively contribute to the Forum’s global platform, engaging with leaders across industries, governments, and civil society to scale the impact of exponential science.
About Atinary Technologies, Inc.
Atinary are the pioneers of Self-Driving Labs®, a term we coined in 2017. Our vision is to augment humans with AI and robotics to exponentially accelerate the discovery of breakthrough molecules that help tackle big challenges in health and sustainability. Since launching in 2019, we have built SDLabs, our code-free agentic AI platform. We also designed and opened our first Self-Driving Lab in Boston, in record time (video). Our partners include ABB Robotics, Agilent, Bruker, Chemspeed, Mettler-Toledo, and AWS.
Atinary is now building the best chemical datasets and AI models for chemistry. We have six years of validated results published with clients, including leading companies and universities. MIT Professor Steve Buchwald, the world’s most cited chemist for 10 consecutive years, is one of our Scientific Advisors. Steve is actively working with our lab team, optimizing chemical reactions, including Buchwald-Hartwig reactions and more. When the late Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Dr. Mario Molina first heard our vision in 2017, he said it best: “This is a second revolution in science.”
One key chemistry insight: Buchwald-Hartwig palladium catalysis was critical to optimizing the efficacy of the new drug in the news to treat pancreatic cancer, daraxonrasib. This is just the tip of the iceberg. Our vision is that with better wet lab-validated data and foundation models purpose-built for scientific discovery, many more molecules like this one will be unlocked.
About the World Economic Forum
The World Economic Forum, committed to improving the state of the world, is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation. The Forum engages the foremost political, business and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas (www.weforum.org).
About Technology Pioneers
Launched in 2000, the Technology Pioneers is a leading community for early-stage companies from around the world that are shaping the future through breakthrough technologies and innovations. These companies are selected for their potential to have a significant impact on business and society and are invited to engage with public and private sector leaders through the World Economic Forum’s global platform.
The Technology Pioneers community is part of the Innovator Communities at the World Economic Forum, which convene the world’s leading global start -ups across different growth stages from early-stage Technology Pioneers to growth-stage Global Innovators and unicorn companies.
