How a biotech robotics startup founded in a community hackerspace by a leftist activist just raised ...

Opentrons' premier product is a sort of 3D printer for biolab work. It's called the OT-2 and it automates pipetting, which can often be a monotonous and labor-intensive task, in laboratories. "You'll see 20-hour experiments where grad students have to go dose a cell every 10 minutes and take a picture.