Lab automation, built by people who've seen how it fails — and stayed to make it work.
Innovation in lab automation moves slowly — in both hardware and software — and too many companies have stopped listening to what the market actually needs. That gap is why theta Labs exists.
- 30+ yrs
- On every side of laboratory automation
- Analysis → service
- Workflow design, software, sales, and years of support
- Two users
- The automation engineer and the scientist, designed for at once
What experience actually buys you
Thirty years in one field isn't a number on a banner — it's memory.
01
See the failure points early
We know this space's history — every generation of hardware and software, and every place automation tends to break. That lets us look at a workflow and see the failure points before they cost you anything.
02
Design for extensibility
We build for extensibility from the start, so the system you buy today still fits the lab you have in five years.
03
Say when you don't need it
More often than any vendor should admit, we'll tell you that you don't need what you came to buy.
How we work
We build on modern hardware and software stacks with one aim: to make automation more approachable, more reliable, and more worthy of the science it serves. Everything comes back to three commitments.
Honest
We tell you what you need, not what we'd like to sell. If that means talking you out of a purchase, we will.
Transparent
No black boxes and no surprises — about what a system can do, what it can't, what it costs, or how long it takes.
Helpful
We measure a project by whether the lab is better for it — and by whether you'd call us again.
The long game
We are not motivated by moving product. We are motivated by relationships — the kind that outlast any single instrument and bridge companies as people move through the industry. Some of the people we work with, we've known for twenty-five years and more, across different labs and roles, because we've put their success ahead of the sale every time. That isn't a strategy. It's just how we've always worked.
Who we work with
We serve labs across every corner of the field — from a single bench instrument to a fully integrated workcell.
- Pharma & biotech
- Clinical & diagnostics
- Academic & core labs
- Applied & industrial testing
Ready to automate your lab?
Tell us your workflow and your goal — we will help you spec the right instruments, devices and consumables.
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