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Mutable Labs (founders Gijs Koning and Felix Kwa) is developing small-model…

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Mutable Labs (founders Gijs Koning and Felix Kwa) is developing small-model, fast-feedback robotics for pharma/biotech to deliver both flexibility for unstructured lab work and regulatory auditability. Ilir Aliu posted on 2026-06-05 that their demo was teachable in under an hour, they have a first customer, a deployed version, and a short video demo.

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If you can teach a robot a new skill in under an hour, you've just made your whole lab more flexible overnight.

Pharma and biotech need automation that's flexible enough for unstructured work... yet auditable enough to trust in regulated environments.

That combination doesn't exist yet.

That's exactly what Gijs Koning and Felix Kwa are building at mutablelabs.ai/

Small models, fast feedback loops, already with a first customer.

The demo they can show took less than an hour of human work to teach. The better one is already deployed.

This is how you build a robotics company. Head down, first customer signed, and not being distracted by any other noise.

Worth following closely.

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