# Medra: robotics company

Canonical ID: `9f55dd03-593e-434b-a5c3-d2a64829aace`

## Key facts

- **CEO:** Michelle Lee, PhD
- **Total funding:** $63M over 2 rounds
- **Flagship lab:** ML001 — 38,000 sq ft autonomous lab, opened April 2026, built in 77 days
- **Head of Robotics:** Aditya Agarwal (ex-Nimble)
- **Customers:** Genentech, Addition Therapeutics, Cultivarium, DARPA
- **Financial stage:** Early-stage (Series A, VC-funded)

- **Slug:** medra
- **Founded:** 2022
- **HQ:** San Francisco, California, USA
- **Funding total (USD):** 52000000

## Models

- [ML001](/models/ml001.md) (other) (id: `44ac8349-912f-4e3b-b1ae-512ded04893a`)

## Current leadership (2)

- [Michelle Lee](/people/michelle-lee-medra.md) CEO & Founder
- [Aditya Agarwal](/people/aditya-agarwal-medra.md) Head of Robotics

## Founders (1)

- [Michelle Lee](/people/michelle-lee-medra.md) _no longer at company_

## Partnerships (2)

- [Medra x DARPA](/partnerships/medra-x-darpa.md) with DARPA _development_
- [Medra x Genentech](/partnerships/medra-x-genentech.md) with Genentech _deployment_

## Supplies to

_No verified supply relationships on file. Supply-chain coverage is being added across the registry; check back as the seed populates this company's outbound edges._

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## Common questions

### What is Medra?

Medra is building the first [Physical AI Scientist](https://www.medra.ai) — a closed-loop system that tightly integrates AI scientific reasoning with autonomous wet-lab experimentation. Founded in 2022, the San Francisco company operates [ML001](/models/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.

### What does Medra make?

Medra has 1 robot model on the DEPLOY registry: ML001 (Medra builds both physical robots and the AI that runs them).

### Where is Medra headquartered?

Medra is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA.

### How much funding has Medra raised?

Medra has raised approximately $52M in disclosed funding on record in the DEPLOY registry.

### Where does Medra operate robots?

Medra is a robot manufacturer and does not directly operate deployments on the DEPLOY registry. Its products are deployed by customer operators; see the company page for the verified deployment record.

### When was Medra founded?

Medra was founded in 2022.


## Sources (4)

1. **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
2. https://www.medra.ai/series-a
3. https://www.mobihealthnews.com/news/medra-raises-52m-partners-genentech
4. https://www.hpcwire.com/off-the-wire/medra-launches-ai-experimentalist-and-announces-darpa-collaboration/

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