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AI-powered robotics for scientific lab automation.

Spring 2025Founded 20255 peopleSan Francisco, CA, USA

About

We’re building AI-powered systems that automate manual work in scientific labs using robotics. Scientists simply type their experiment in plain English. Zeon translates it into code and runs it on robotic arms (no coding required). By controlling robots with natural language, we’re enabling automation for every lab, every scientist, and every experiment. Zeon is lab-aware. It detects equipment, adapts to protocols, and moves autonomously between instruments to execute full workflows. We’re already working with labs at Stanford and UCSF to accelerate discovery - from running overnight nanoparticle fluorescence measurements to safely disposing of hundreds of bacterial samples. Zeon reclaims time for what matters most: the science.

Founders · 2

Brontë Kolar
Brontë KolarFounder
UPenn

cofounder & CEO @ Zeon Systems (YC X25) - accelerating science with robotics + AI. - built electronic systems for electric aircraft and high-density batteries before pivoting to computational biology research at UCSF and UPenn. early engineer at LatchBio.

Tahir D'Mello
Tahir D'MelloFounder
Yale🎓 IIT

cofounder & CTO @ Zeon Systems (YC X25) accelerating science with robotics and AI. ---------------- been building software and ML for science labs basically all my adult life, doing computational research at IIT, Yale and working in biotech and pharma across India and the US.

Launch

Launched on Y Combinator · Apr 2025
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We turn natural language into real-time lab automation.

Zeon Systems sells a hardware+software system that uses off-the-shelf robotics to execute lab experiments described in plain English. The software interprets protocols, detects tools with computer vision, and generates robotic code to run in real time for research labs, with pilots at UCSF and Stanford for fluorescence screening, automated pipetting, and biohazard disposal.

Formerly Zeon Technologies

IndustrialsManufacturing and RoboticsArtificial IntelligenceRobotic Process AutomationRoboticsAutomation

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