Robot on Rails

Market context

Robot on Rails builds Undergrad, a robotic lab system that executes plain-language protocols on existing benches, verifies steps with vision and logs results without custom code. Founded in Boston in 2022 and incubated at MassRobotics, the bootstrapped company reports more than $2 million in revenue.

Facts

• Website: https://www.robotonrails.com/
• HQ: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
• Founded: 2022
• Segment: Lab Automation

Events

• 2025-12-16 - Partnership - Robot on Rails, OpenAI and Red Queen Bio test AI-directed wet-lab research - The collaboration connected GPT-5 protocol design with Robot on Rails hardware executing molecular-cloning experiments on a conventional lab bench. The AI-generated protocol improved the target metric 79-fold, while robotic execution produced a 2.13-fold expe…

Team

• Chase Olle - Founder & CEO
• Nitin Mahadeo, Ph.D. - Lead Robotics & Perception
• Azadeh Samadian - Head of AI, Data & Cloud Infrastructure
• Anupama Kozhiyalam - Scientific Architect

Relationships

• OpenAI - AI Directed Wet Lab Research - Robot on Rails worked with OpenAI and Red Queen Bio on an AI-directed wet-lab molecular-cloning system.

Context tags

• Autonomous lab execution - Workflow - Undergrad executes scientific protocols and verifies steps with vision.
• Lab robotics systems - Peer Group - Undergrad is a robotic system designed to execute scientific laboratory protocols.
• Natural-language robot control - Capability - Robot on Rails accepts plain-language protocol instructions without custom workflow code.