I sit down with Roya Amini-Naieni, co-founder and CEO of Trilo Bio, to talk about why 77% of biologists fail to reproduce their own experiments — and why affordable lab automation is the unlock for everything we can build with biology. The Trilo team is fixing this by building modular robots, software, and tooling from the ground up. We get into the rise of self-driving biology labs and why automation has to be decentralized if we want to build anything with biology.

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Recording date: June 6, 2026

Chapters

00:00 Introduction

03:38 What Biologists Actually Do

05:04 What is Synthetic Biology?

06:06 Understanding Bio-manufacturing

09:53 Challenges In Biology Research

16:56 Pharma And Automation In Biology

24:11 Future Of Software in Biology

30:50 AI And, "Self-Driving" Biology Labs

36:27 Current Bottlenecks In Bio-manufacturing

39:27 Trilo Bio’s Customers

42:58 Public vs Private Biology Labs In The U.S.

45:16 Decentralized Lab Automation

52:30 Going Beyond R&D With Trilo

56:48 Rapid Fire

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Connect with Roya Amini-Naieni:

* Trilobio: https://www.trilo.bio/

* Email: roya@trilo.bio

* LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/roya-amini-naieni/

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Jordan

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