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Building fully autonomous research and engineering labs.

§ 01 · Company
Research infrastructure for autonomous labs.

Currently building Carbon — the platform for instrument orchestration, data acquisition, and analysis that lets AI agents actually run a lab.

carbonplatform.ai
§  01  What we build

One platform for instrument control, data, and agentic research.

Carbon Platform

The substrate AI agents need to actually run a lab.

Carbon is an integrated control and compute system for instrument orchestration, data acquisition, and analysis — built for autonomous research, test engineering, and manufacturing. One Rust controller, every protocol, every lab.

Explore Carbon
Carbon · Runtime topology· LIVE FLOW
MEASURE / COMMANDSTREAM / LOGTOOLS · QUERYLOADQUERYPUBLISH↻ CLOSED LOOP01 · EDGEInstruments11 PROTOCOLSGPIB · USB-TMC · LAN · SERIAL · MODBUS02 · CONTROL PLANEControl daemonRUST · DETERMINISTIC · EDGEON-PREM · AIR-GAPPEDSDKPlugin registryYAML · OPEN-SOURCE03 · STORAGEData LakePARQUET · HDF5 · VERSIONEDEDGE-FIRST · RBAC · LINEAGEPYTHONAnalysisJUPYTERLABREAL-TIME COLLAB04 · AGENTSAgentic researchersMCP · RBAC · TOOLSCONFIGURE · RUN · MONITOR · DEBUGOPEN FORMATSPARQUET · HDF5 · PYTHON SDKDEPLOYMENTCLOUD · ON-PREM · AIR-GAPPED