WALTHAM, Mass. — Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. has announced a strategic collaboration with NVIDIA aimed at embedding artificial intelligence into scientific instrumentation and laboratory infrastructure to improve automation, accuracy, and speed across research environments.
Under the collaboration, Thermo Fisher will leverage NVIDIA’s artificial intelligence platform to help modernize laboratory workflows, reduce manual steps, and accelerate scientific discovery. The effort is focused on evolving the digital foundation that supports scientific instruments, laboratory operations, and data, enabling tighter integration with AI-powered software and automation tools.
Many laboratories today continue to rely on manual processes for designing experiments, preparing samples, running instruments, and interpreting results. Thermo Fisher and NVIDIA said the collaboration is intended to help transform these workflows by powering instruments with enhanced AI capabilities, connecting laboratories and datasets to advanced AI software, and augmenting scientists’ ability to design, execute, and analyze experiments more efficiently.
Thermo Fisher will combine its portfolio of scientific instruments and laboratory software with NVIDIA’s AI infrastructure, including NVIDIA DGX Spark, as well as AI models such as NVIDIA NeMo and NVIDIA BioNeMo. The companies said the goal is to evolve scientific instrumentation so it can interact more seamlessly with scientists through intuitive user experiences, helping broaden access to next-generation discovery tools.
“Artificial intelligence coupled with laboratory automation will transform how scientific work is performed,” said Gianluca Pettiti, Executive Vice President at Thermo Fisher Scientific. “By combining Thermo Fisher’s leadership in laboratory technologies with NVIDIA’s digital and AI solutions, we can help customers work faster, improve accuracy and get more value out of each experiment, ultimately accelerating discoveries that can have significant human impact.”
NVIDIA said the collaboration supports the development of autonomous laboratory environments capable of scaling scientific discovery.
“We are entering the era of ‘lab-in-the-loop’ science where the trinity of AI, agents and instruments will be able to scale scientific discovery at industrial pace,” said Kimberly Powell, Vice President of Healthcare at NVIDIA. “Working with Thermo Fisher, we are building the fundamental infrastructure of autonomous labs, creating a powerful research and discovery flywheel accelerating the pace of life sciences breakthroughs.”
Thermo Fisher said the collaboration builds on its strategy of integrating advanced digital capabilities into its instruments, consumables, and services. By incorporating AI into the laboratory, the company aims to create a more unified ecosystem in which data, instruments, software, and scientists work together to significantly increase productivity and accelerate research outcomes.
