HITBOT Wins 2025 LeadeRobot Award for Contribution to Robotics Research –
Empowering Experimentation and Returning Research to Creativity
On December 18th, the 6th China Robotics Industry Annual Conference 2025 was held in Hangzhou. At the conference, HITBOT won the “2025 LeadeRobot Award for Contribution to Robotics Research” for its innovative breakthroughs in the field of intelligent life science laboratories.
This honor signifies that LeadeRobot’s laboratory intelligent agents are moving from conceptual exploration to real-world application, providing a new technological path and development paradigm for life science research.
01 How will laboratory intelligent agents change the daily operation of laboratories?
In the fields of medicine and life sciences, the core demands of laboratories have always focused on three points: compliance and stability, efficiency and throughput, and long-term cost control. Based on hardware and software collaboration, HITBOT enables these goals to be achieved simultaneously within the same technological framework for the first time.
First, in terms of standardization and repeatability, automated processes operate under established specifications, significantly reducing the uncertainty risks caused by operational differences, improving the stability and repeatability of experimental results, and providing a fundamental guarantee for compliant operation and data credibility.
Second, in terms of throughput and efficiency, the system supports continuous 24/7 operation of equipment, eliminating the constraints of manual pace in experimental execution, achieving an order-of-magnitude increase in sample processing capacity, effectively shortening the R&D cycle, and improving overall scientific output efficiency.
Simultaneously, with the improvement of process stability and success rate, long-term operating costs are also significantly optimized. Reduced repetitive human input and significantly reduced waste of consumables due to rework and repeated experiments lead to a continuous improvement in the overall operational efficiency and return on investment of the laboratory.
02 How will laboratory intelligent agents change the way researchers work?
The introduction of laboratory intelligent agents frees researchers from a large number of repetitive, low-value-added operations. Researchers can devote more energy to higher scientific value aspects, including proposing and validating new research hypotheses, designing and optimizing experimental pathways, analyzing complex data and extracting conclusions, and continuously optimizing the automated and intelligent processes themselves.
In this process, researchers have achieved a clearer division of labor between experimental execution and scientific thinking: machines handle repetitive execution and data processing, while humans focus on innovative design and strategic decision-making. This not only improves research efficiency but also significantly enhances the overall quality and innovation of experiments, transforming research activities from simple operations to creative research.
03 How will laboratory intelligent agents impact the development of the life sciences industry?
At a broader level, this technological path has fundamental significance for the biopharmaceutical and life sciences industries.
In high-throughput scenarios such as antibody discovery, vaccine development, and gene and cell therapy, automation and intelligent agent systems have become essential for large-scale screening and experimental validation, directly driving improvements in new drug development efficiency.
In the fields of precision medicine and clinical research, standardized and traceable automated processes provide a stable and reliable data foundation for research in genomics, microbiome, and other fields, serving as a crucial prerequisite for high-quality clinical research.
Furthermore, the digitization, structuring, and full traceability of experimental processes drive the transformation of research activities from “experience-driven” to “system-driven,” helping to establish a more standardized, transparent, and credible research quality management system and creating new technical and methodological standards for the industry.
Conclusion Behind every award lies a path of long-term commitment. Receiving the 2025 LeadeRobot Award for Contribution to Robotics Research is a recognition of HITBOT’s long-standing commitment to a “software-hardware synergy, system-level innovation” approach.
This 2025 LeadeRobot Award reflects HITBOT’s continuous technological practice in driving the upgrade of laboratories from traditional automation to intelligent agents, and from stacking single tools to system collaboration. As intelligent agents are gradually integrated into research infrastructure, life science research is moving towards a more standardized, systematic, and sustainable direction, while providing strong support for researchers to unleash more creativity and improve research efficiency and experimental reliability.