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Benchmate
Natalie
An open-source AI labmate spanning evidence, hypotheses, protocols, and follow-up analysis.
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FELLOWSHIP
100 DAYS OF BUILDING. A COMMUNITY OF FELLOWS. PROJECTS OUT IN THE WORLD.
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Natalie / Benchmate
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Dale / Self-driving lab
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Vivek / Discovery
01 · THE FORMAT
Build, share, repeat
Fellows built from wherever they were, met in community, and shared progress every two weeks. The sprint rhythm gave room to test an idea, change direction, and bring a working project to the final demo.
Meet the fellows
02 · THE OUTCOME
From ideas to demos
The final projects ranged from an AI labmate and a modular cell-culture lab to agent observability, tennis performance analysis, and rare-disease drug discovery.
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Fellow spotlights
NATALIE · 2026 FELLOW
An AI labmate for the whole research loop
Natalie, a molecular cell biologist, built Benchmate to connect literature, hypothesis generation, wet-lab protocol design, and analysis. Her first fellowship build was a protocol generator; by demo night she had a live, open-source labmate.
DALE · 2026 FELLOW
Lab automation from the workbench up
Dale brought a mechanical drafting and industrial automation background to a modular self-driving cell-culture lab. His roughly $100 heater-shaker prototype joined a decapper, flask tipper, and other instruments in progress.
JULIA · 2026 FELLOW
Making scientific agent runs inspectable
Julia built watch agent run after exploring agent tooling for experiment design. It turns logs into tables and provenance reports so researchers can check what an agent actually read and did.
What the 2026 fellows are saying
“A fantastic end to a fantastic fellowship :) so many thanks to Michael Raspuzzi, Worldwide Studios, and this great cohort of builders”
Natalie
FELLOW · 2026
“The accountability created by community pushed me farther than I would have gone if I'd done this alone.”
Vivek
FELLOW · 2026
THE PROJECTS
What the fellows built
A snapshot of the work from the final demos. Each project links to its individual demo.
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DIY self-driving lab
Dale
A modular cell-culture lab built around accessible instruments, including a low-cost heater-shaker.
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Tennis performance analysis
Sameer
Computer vision and wearable signals connect swing technique with readiness, sleep, and HRV.
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watch agent run
Julia
An observability layer for comparing scientific agent claims with append-only run logs.
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Rare-disease discovery engine
Vivek
World models explore mechanistic hypotheses and patient-specific AAV therapeutic designs.
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