Research Focus in Biolab Automation

• Management of big research data in the lab context (FAIR data)
• Integration of hardware and software components for automation
• Machine Learning on multimodal lab data (omics and imaging data)
• Robot-based liquid handling

Selected Publications

• Andrew I. Cooper, Patrick Courtney, Kourosh Darvish, Moritz Eckhoff, Hatem Fakhruldeen, Andrea Gabrielli, Animesh Garg, Sami Haddadin, Kanako Harada, Jason Hein, Maria Hübner, Dennis Knobbe, Gabriella Pizzuto, Florian Shkurti, Ruja Shrestha, Kerstin Thurow, Rafael Vescovi, Birgit Vogel-Heuser, Ádám Wolf, Naruki Yoshikawa, Yan Zeng, Zhengxue Zhou, Henning Zwirnmann, Accelerating discovery in natural science laboratories with AI and robotics: Perspectives and challenges, 2025. [Project Page]
• Henning Zwirnmann, Moritz Eckhoff, Dennis Knobbe, Dorian Fülöp, Andrea Gabrielli, Sami Haddadin, The qPCRBot: Combining Automated Data Handling, Standardization, and Robotic Labware Transport for Better qPCR Measurements, 2025. [Project Page]
• Moritz Eckhoff, Dennis Knobbe, Henning Zwirnmann, Abdalla Swikir, Sami Haddadin, Towards Connecting Control to Perception: High-Performance Whole-Body Collision Avoidance Using Control-Compatible Obstacles, 2023. [Project Page]
• Henning Zwirnmann, Dennis Knobbe, Utku Culha, Sami Haddadin, Towards Flexible Biolaboratory Automation: Container Taxonomy-Based, 3D-Printed Gripper Fingers\(^\mbox*\), 2023. [Project Page]
• Dennis Knobbe, Henning Zwirnmann, Moritz Eckhoff, Sami Haddadin, Core Processes in Intelligent Robotic Lab Assistants: Flexible Liquid Handling, 2022. [Project Page]