The verified answer
As of Aug 2026, DEPLOY verifies Medra: 1 model, 2 deployments across 2 regions, $63.0M raised. 4 sources back the record.
Overview
Medra is building the first Physical AI Scientist — a closed-loop system that tightly integrates AI scientific reasoning with autonomous wet-lab experimentation. Founded in 2022, the San Francisco company operates ML001, a 38,000 sq ft autonomous lab where hundreds of off-the-shelf robots run continuous experiments across antibody discovery, protein engineering, gene editing, and cell biology. Partners including Genentech, Addition Therapeutics, Cultivarium, and DARPA access the platform through on-site deployments or remote operation.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- 2 deployments on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Valuation of record
DEPLOY VERIFIEDPriced roundSeries A post-money
Key facts
CEO
Total fundingsee investors →
Flagship lab
Head of Robotics
Customers
Financial stage
Data & sources
Web sources
4
4 sources backing this record.View all →
Models (1)
View all models →Partnerships
Every company Medra has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1DARPA1× joint
- 2Genentech1× joint
Most recent
- Medra x DARPA2026-06-26with DARPAoperating
- Medra x Genentech2025-12-11with Genentechoperating
Medra on the deployment map
View the global map2 verified deployments across 2 regions, newest verified Jun 2024. Explore where Medra's robots are operating, by place and type.
View the full Medra deployment record →
Relationships
Current leadership (2)
- Michelle Lee CEO & Founder
- Aditya Agarwal Head of Robotics
Founders (1)
- Michelle Leeno longer at company
Safety record
No incidents on record for Medra.
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)
- Medra2 deployments
Recent coverage
Medra in third-party press
Peers
218 peers across 2 segments. Every Medra competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.
service(144)
113 companies in this segment · competitive (HHI 831.3520919269878) · leader Bond at 1957%
- 1X Technologiesdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- A&K Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Aescapedirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Allen Control Systemsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Amazondirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Amity Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
industrial robot(74)
33 companies in this segment · moderately_concentrated (HHI 2051.61304640928) · leader Mind Robotics at 3415%
- ABB Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- AMP Roboticsdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- ASUSdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- ATOMSdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Acuminodirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Allonicdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
Financial state
- Total funding
- $63.0M
- Employees
- 60
- Reporting basis
- aggregator_estimate
- Lifecycle stage
- growth
- Counterparty risk class
- unknown
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Partnerships
2 total · 2 operating
Every company Medra has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- Medra x DARPA2026-06-26with DARPAoperating
- Medra x Genentech2025-12-11with Genentechoperating
Most-frequent partners
- 1DARPA1× joint
- 2Genentech1× joint
All 2 partnerships
open in the atlas →- Medra x DARPAwithDARPAdevelopment2026-06-26operating
- Medra x GenentechwithGenentechdeployment2025-12-11operating
Funding rounds (2)
Medra’s 2 disclosed rounds, $63M in total, oldest to newest.
- Series A2025-12-11
$52M · $312M post
Investors: Human Capital (lead), Lux Capital, Neo, NFDG, Catalio Capital Management, Menlo Ventures, 776, Fusion Fund
- Seed2025-09-12
$11M(reported) · $44M post
Investors: Lux Capital (lead), Neo, NFDG
Timeline
Every recorded move in Medra’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
PartnershipMedra x DARPA
2026-06-26DARPA is funding a project using Medra's AI Experimentalist reasoning layer inside ML001, the company's flagship autonomous science lab. The project advances capabilities to translate natural-language scientific goals and human-written protocols into machine-executable experiments.
PartnershipMedra x Genentech
2025-12-11Genentech leverages Medra's Physical AI, Scientific AI, and robotics platform to accelerate drug discovery. Medra integrates with Genentech's LIMS and ML infrastructure for continuous learning, enabling in-house predictions, experiment execution, and iterative optimization.
Funding roundSeries A funding round
2025-12-11Series A raising $52000000
Funding roundSeed funding round
2025-09-12Seed raising $11000000
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Record createdJul 14, 2026
Added to the verified registry
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJun 1, 2024
ML001 at United States (multiple hotel chains)
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJun 1, 2024
ML001 at Germany, Europe
Sources (4)
- Medra Raises $52 Million Series A to Build Physical AI Scientists · https://www.roboticstomorrow.com/news/2025/12/11/medra-raises-52-million-series-a-to-build-physical-ai-scientists/25907
- https://www.medra.ai/series-a
- https://www.mobihealthnews.com/news/medra-raises-52m-partners-genentech
- https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/medra-launches-ai-experimentalist-and-announces-darpa-collaboration/
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Methodology: Verified · 4 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-21
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-21
Sources by quality tier
- 4
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Medra.Peer companies
- Roborock20 models
- Unitree Robotics10 models
- DJI7 models
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics6 models
- Gobio Robot6 models
- Orbbec6 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Medra from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Tesla self-driving manager describes scary conditions in robotaxi testing
A former Tesla manager who ran the company’s “Full Self-Driving” test fleet in Houston says the operation was so understaffed that its cars became “rolling hazards on public…
Medra Launches AI Experimentalist and Announces DARPA Collaboration
Medra launched the AI Experimentalist, the scientific reasoning layer of its Physical AI Scientist Platform, and announced a DARPA-funded project using the system inside ML001,…
Medra Secures $52 Million Series A to Revolutionize Drug Discovery with Physical AI Scientists
Medra announced a $52M Series A led by Human Capital to build Physical AI Scientists that autonomously conduct experiments and interface with standard laboratory tools for drug…
Medra, a developer of AI-powered lab robots and scientists to advance drug discovery, raises $52M
Medra raised $52M in Series A to build the first physical AI scientist, integrating LLMs with robotic systems that run autonomous lab experiments for drug discovery.
Medra raises $52M, partners with Genentech
Medra secured $52M in Series A funding led by Human Capital and announced a partnership with Genentech to integrate its Physical AI and robotics into lab systems for drug…
Data Is a Robotics Problem, Medra CEO Says Physical AI Will Transform Biology
Medra CEO Michelle Lee explains how Physical AI that integrates scientific reasoning with wet-lab automation will accelerate biological discovery and drug development.
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/medra.md
- RSS feed: /companies/medra/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/9f55dd03-593e-434b-a5c3-d2a64829aace
- Revision history: /companies/medra/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- Roborock20 models
- Unitree Robotics10 models
- DJI7 models
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics6 models
- Gobio Robot6 models
- Orbbec6 models
Video
Unlock the future of drug discovery with AI-powered robots that could revolutionize science as we know it! Joining us at Catalio Conversations is Michelle Lee,
Medra, which programs robots with AI to conduct and improve biological experiments, has raised $52 million to build what it says will be one of the largest auto
At this Thursday Nights in AI, hosts Ali Rohde and Josh Albrecht discussed the future of robotics and computer vision, and the role of AI in the space. Special
AI-powered autonomous biology labs Founder: Michelle Lee Founder's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amichlee/ Open roles: Full-Stack Engineer, Frontend
Medra builds systems to collect life science data with a level of precision and scale humans alone could never achieve. The company is led by Michelle Lee, PhD
In this presentation, Medra CEO Michelle Lee talked about why she's excited about robots and the key components of AI-enabled general-purpose automation (It's N
Introducing Medra, Physical AI in the Lab https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251211748411/en/Medra-Raises-%2452-Million-Series-A-to-Build-Physical-AI-Scie
"We are building the data engine that we believe is necessary to make science autonomous. Instead of opening a lab, we thought to ourselves, why couldn't we ope
AI is leaving the screen and entering the physical world, and the stakes couldn't be higher. Forbes AI reporter Anna Tong brings together Josh DeFonzo (Co-found
Reality vs attention
Medra draws attention at the 71st percentile but verifies reality at the 34th percentile among other robots. Hype Gap +37, 33rd widest among other robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Clean safety record across 2 verified deployments. Funded with institutional backing on record. Deployment footprint remains limited relative to category peers.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Aug 29, 2026