Hydra runs the experiment for you. An AI driven robot that looks at your reagents and biologics, analyses your goals and runs your experiments for you in days, not weeks.
What is Hydra
Hydra is a universal plate analyzer and liquid dispenser with an AI control layer on top. A multi-channel sensor reads the full state of every well created and fused the trend into a single picture. Lattice's AI with its sensor readings, recording and prior knowledge decides how to run the experiment to find the optimal result and show you how it got there.
How It Works
Hydra samples across your candidates, identifies the best fit and chooses it, thinks about the drug and its attributes then designs the experiment to tackle the problem in the shortest time and least amount of samples.
Hydra reads each clone's culture live with Raman, getting titer and quality in real time, with no offline assay wait.
The AI maps the clones by titer and quality, then predicts which will be the best producer before screening them all.
It screens the panel, converges on the top clone, and hands you the winner in days, not months.
Why Hydra
Every run replaces weeks of manual pipetting, plate reading, and re-design.
A single probe-modular head reads the full state of every well in one pass, feeding the AI the live signal it learns from.
After every read, the AI maps the result into its embedding space and actively learns where to look next, converging on the answer in a handful of experiments, not an exhaustive grid.
It handles dispensing, mixing, plate handling and reading. Set your goal in plain language once, then walk away.
The same ML that controls production reactors, applied to the experiment itself.
The Result
The same time, labour, and material savings recur across every workflow Hydra runs, from clone selection to process development.
Compress a campaign from 4-8 weeks to 3-5 days. You can test more ideas in less time.
Active setup drops from ~6 weeks of scientist time per campaign to a few hours.
Converge in ~30 wells instead of 300–500 saving material costs of £5K–£50K per gram.
Every week saved gets a new drug to patients sooner, a head start worth millions.
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Hydra is the discovery engine. The maps it learns feed directly into Lattice for Sentry, so insight flows from plates to production reactors.
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