Ginkgo Bioworks Timeline

Events

• 2026-08-06 - Contract Award - Ginkgo wins autonomous-laboratory projects at three U.S. universities - The new autonomous-laboratory projects cover Caltech, Northwestern University and the University of Maryland. The MIT Media Lab's Cloud Laboratory for Learning will deploy Ginkgo Reconfigurable Automation Carts. The projects extend Ginkgo's modular… - source: investors.ginkgobioworks.com
• 2026-03-02 - Product Launch - Ginkgo launches browser-accessible Cloud Lab - The service runs on modular Reconfigurable Automation Carts combining high-precision robotic arms, magnetic-levitation sample transport and industrial software. Remote workflows span sample preparation, liquid handling, analytical readouts, storage and… - source: prnewswire.com
• 2026-02-05 - Demonstration - Ginkgo and OpenAI run 36,000 autonomous lab experiments - The system linked GPT-5 with Ginkgo's Reconfigurable Automation Carts and Catalyst software to design, execute and analyse experiments with minimal human involvement. Across six iterative cycles, the autonomous laboratory processed more than 580 384-well… - source: prnewswire.com
• 2018-04-12 - Award - Ginkgo and Transcriptic receive $9.5M DARPA automation award - The work formed part of DARPA's Synergistic Discovery and Design program, known as SD2. The project connected Ginkgo's automated foundry with Transcriptic's robotic cloud laboratory to execute biological experiments around the clock. Machine-learning systems… - source: prnewswire.com