Tahir D'Mello
@TahirMello
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science, ai, robotics | founder @ @zeonsystems, yale, iit
Joined May 2020
Quick update on this: We won. Land Use stripped the lab ban and then passed an empty bill. It still bans delivery drones for 18mo, which as I said, aren’t even a thing. Congrats to @JackieFielder_ tho! This blank paper is her VERY FIRST binding resolution. So. Big milestone.
DSA Supervisor @JackieFielder_ is back on her bullshit. She wants to ban all R&D in the Mission, and it looks like she's going to get away with it bc the rest of the BoS isn't paying attention. Sorry this has to be a thread, but it's fucking insane and you need to know details.
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@BronteKolar shoutout to @terronk for bringing this to our notice through here
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My cofounder (@BronteKolar) and I run a small science + AI + robotics lab right on the Mission / SOMA border. We’re technically just outside the area this affects (for now), but this is very worrying for us and a lot of our friends. These are people trying to build amazing
If you live in San Francisco and want to make sure we keep R&D and laboratories legal in the city and in the Mission (uh wish I was joking but this is serious) You need to email your supervisor today 👇
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over the last year working at the intersection of AI + robotics + scientific automation, we've seen the funding skyrocket. researchers and engineers have been planting the seeds to enable this for a while, chipping away at challenges like building accessible python drivers for
NSF is launching one of the most ambitious experiments in federal science funding in 75 years. The program is called Tech Labs, and the goal is to invest ~$1 billion to seed new institutions of science and technology for the 21st century. Instead of funding projects, the NSF
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one of the primary reasons i stopped working in bioinformatics was because i was frustrated by how bad, painful, and straight up broken the tooling for biology was. tools were unintuitive, documentation was non-existent - it always felt like trying to dig through a mountain with
Launching a public agent sandbox for spatial biology. Five demo flows tailored to specific kits/machines Try it now: https://t.co/6lCf97Q5xi This is a shippable intermediary towards reliable and widely deployed agentic systems used to make expensive scientific decisions.
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been a busy summer + winter fixing problems at the zeon workshop lots of cool stuff coming out soon
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field testin in florida! flew two of our robots - Xhyvel and Fairuz - to gator country. also shoutout to our engineers + friends for the easy-to-pronounce names
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Agents are finally starting to work in biology. We’ve partnered with Anthropic and major biotech vendors - Vizgen, AtlasXOmics, Takara, 10x Genomics - to build a tool that allows scientists to steer their own analysis with natural language. Raw spatial data to publication
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robots rotate, Brontë potates (we are hiring @zeonsystems so please reach out if you want to work in robotics + ml + science)
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most days, we automate science. on @ycombinator’s x25 demo day, we automated cocktails. congrats to everyone on an insane batch!
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Introducing MicroFactory A robot that automates repetitive manual work — starting with electronics assembly.
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proud dad video of my children practicing loading lab equipment at Stanford early days still but so much cool stuff coming soon @zeonsystems
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Theorem (@theoremlabs) is an AI-coding IDE for mission-critical software. They're making program verification 10,000 times faster, so your systems code does exactly what you asked for. Congrats on the launch, @diagram_chaser and @___rajashree___! https://t.co/hqZJINedRj
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Billboards for @zeonsystems are up in SF! We won our YC group’s product showcase with a live demo of our AI-powered lab automation. Wild to see our mission on the 101. Huge thanks to @ycombinator + our partners (@daltonc, @aaron_epstein, @dflieb, @xuster) for sponsoring this.
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Industry is caught between ~$500k/unit flagship handlers (Hamilton STARs, Tecan Fluents) and maker-style Opentrons. Neither category have eaten away at true quantity of wasted labor (think of simply as # hours on rote tasks multiplied across capable scientists). Walk into your
🧪@ZeonSystems is making science move at the speed of thought. Scientists type out their experiments in English and Zeon programs robots to execute it. One system. Any lab. Any scientist. Any task. https://t.co/mhrvwttB6u Congrats on the launch, @BronteKolar and @TahirMello!
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YC is the YC of hard tech
🧪@ZeonSystems is making science move at the speed of thought. Scientists type out their experiments in English and Zeon programs robots to execute it. One system. Any lab. Any scientist. Any task. https://t.co/mhrvwttB6u Congrats on the launch, @BronteKolar and @TahirMello!
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building cool shit @BronteKolar @zeonsystems
🧪@ZeonSystems is making science move at the speed of thought. Scientists type out their experiments in English and Zeon programs robots to execute it. One system. Any lab. Any scientist. Any task. https://t.co/mhrvwttB6u Congrats on the launch, @BronteKolar and @TahirMello!
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home after a year and i have been informed that we now ‘cohabitate’ with a snake that no one has been able to catch for 3 months ???
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