For decades, chemistry labs have looked almost exactly the same — manual, slow, and heavily dependent on human trial and error. While biology rapidly automated, chemistry quietly fell behind.

In this episode of Building Blocks: Living Machines, we go inside one of the world’s first fully AI-powered chemistry labs with Sean Lin, Founder & CEO of ChemLex, a next-generation contract research organisation reimagining how molecules are discovered.

Joined by Jenny Lee, Senior Managing Partner at Granite Asia, we explore:

• Why chemistry lacked automation for decades
• How ChemLex’s robotic lab runs up to 800 reactions per day
• Why this matters for drug development, national resilience, and the future of scientific work

This is a story about rebuilding one of the most fundamental layers of science — with machines.

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