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ABLE Labs

South Korean laboratory automation robotics company founded in 2021 by Sang Shin, developing liquid handling robots and self-driving lab platforms.

Founded
2021
HQ
Seoul, South Korea

The verified answer

As of Sep 2026, DEPLOY verifies ABLE Labs: 1 model, 3 deployments across 3 regions, $8.7M raised. 2 sources back the record.

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Overview

South Korean laboratory automation robotics company founded in 2021 by Sang Shin, developing liquid handling robots and self-driving lab platforms. Its flagship product NOTABLE automates pipetting workflows for bio experiments, with ~70 units deployed across 50+ research institutions. The company is building AI-integrated autonomous laboratory systems and has expanded into semiconductor, chemical, cosmetics, and battery quality testing automation.

Verified record

Verified deployments
3 deployments on file
Active incidents
None on file

Key facts

HQ

Seoul, South Korea

Founder

Sector

Lab automation robotics

Products

NOTABLE (liquid handling robot), Windy (no-code automation software)

Deployments

~70 NOTABLE units across 50+ research institutions

Revenue 2025

12.9B KRW (~$9.6M), 113% YoY growth

Certifications

FDA 21 CFR Part 11, ISO 13485

Series A lead

Series A date

August 2026

Series A amount

12.1B KRW (~$8.7M)

National R&D projects

8 active projects, 100B+ KRW in government grants over 5 years

Key collaboration

Johns Hopkins University — organoid drug efficacy platform

International expansion

Singapore delivery completed, US big pharma PoC projects underway

Application sectors

Bio/pharma, semiconductor, chemical, cosmetics, secondary battery

Data & sources

Web sources

2

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Partnerships

Every company ABLE Labs has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.

1 total1 just announced

Most-frequent partners

  1. 1Johns Hopkins University1× joint

Most recent

  1. with Johns Hopkins Universityjust announced

Relationships

Current leadership (1)

  • Sang Shin CEO & Founder, Foundersecondary-verified

Safety record

No incidents on record for ABLE Labs.

Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.

Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →

Operator customers (1)

Recent coverage

ABLE Labs in third-party press