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Helical Brew — 68 episodes

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#68 - Building the Software Behind the Automated Lab | Armon Naddaf, Persist AI

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#67 - Foundations of the AI-Ready Lab | Aniket Deshpande, NVIDIA

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#66 - Why Great Laboratory Automation Companies Win | Brian O'Sullivan, Opentrons

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#65 - Unfiltered Brew: We're Back | LRIG, SLAS & What's Ahead #helicalbrew #viral #shorts

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#64 - Building the Road to Autonomous Labs | Rui Campos, Automata

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#63 - The Execution Problem: Lab Donkey

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#62 - Programming Biology: Why Lab Automation Needs a New Language

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#61 - Biology Doesn't Scale. Systems Do. | Rich Cohen, Ginkgo Bioworks

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#60 - Your Career Is a Business: How to Own It Like One

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#59 - Unfiltered Brew: Wrong State, Zombie Airport & Bunny Ears

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#58 - Building the Missing Layer: Open Scheduling, Swarm Automation & Why Labs Need Control

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#57 - It Worked Yesterday: What 20 Yrs of Lab Automation Svc Teaches You About Reality

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#56 - Shorts, Algorithms & the Reality of Growing a Science Podcast

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#54 - Why Endgame Strategy Beats Firepower Every Time

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#55 - Standardization B4 Intelligence: Building the AI-Ready Lab Stack

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#53 - Mac Brew with Mike Ouren

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#52 - Beyond the Algorithm: Measuring AI Confidence in Biomanufacturing

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#51 - Dogs, Planes & Pizza Slices – Helical Brew Goes Off-Script

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#50 - ISPE Boston at Gillette Stadium –Robots, Enclosures & Boston Energy

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#49 - Class Rings, Metric Fails & Why Women’s Pockets Suck

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#48 - The 2025 Hiring Curve (Part 2)

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#47 - The 2025 Hiring Curve (Part 1)

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#46 - Red Chair, Closet Beer, #peloton Fame & #frenchie Drama #helicalbrew #viral #shortvideo

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#45 - Cristian Ponce on Robots, AI Engineers & the Cloud Lab Revolution

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#44 - Flying Tylenol, Gamer Rage & BBQ Sauce: Travel & Tech Talk

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#43 - From Lanyards to Lollapalooza: Unfiltered Trade Show Tales

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#42 - Unfiltered Brew: Summer Trade Shows, Surf Racks & Shrinkage

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#41 - Blueprints, Bots & Breaking In: Building The Automated Lab

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#40 - From Bench to Buy-In: How Real Innovation Wins the Market

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#39 - Built to Fail: What Lab Ops Gets Wrong (and How to Fix It)

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#38 - Fluent in the Field: How One Neuroscientist Traded Brain Slices for Robots

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#37 - Unfiltered Brew: Lab Chaos, Coolant Caps & Automation Day Throwbacks

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#36 - Scaling Lab Innovation: Turning Automation into Business Success

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#35 - Charbel Eid

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#34 - SLAS Europe 2025 Wrap-Up: The Best in Lab Automation from Hamburg

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#33 - SLAS 2025 Hamburg Live | Lab Automation in Europe: Trends, Tech & Tea with Tim & Martin

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#32 - Experiences from the Field with Andrew Hurder

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#31 - Shrinkflation, Seth Rogen & Skateboards: Unfiltered Brew Returns

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#30 - Molecular Simulations & AI: Accelerating Drug Discovery

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#29 - What Success Really Takes: Simplicity, Trust & Saying No to Clients

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#28 - Earthquakes, TikTok Chaos, Amazon Scams, and Gaming Dreams

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#27 - Pear Phones, Tesla Stickers & Gen Z Rizz: A Tech Culture Tangent

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#26 - From Brews to Bots: Scotch Rituals, Sci-Fi Tangents & Lab Legends

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#25 - The Machine Learning Blueprint: AI Architecture with G. Tony Reina

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#24 - Building AI Software for the Future, Insights from John Conway

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#23 - Will AI Replace Scientists? Automating Science with Nick Edwards

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#22 - When Lab Automation Fails: The Hidden Costs of Bad Automation

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#21 - Julie O'Shaughnessy

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#20 - Mostafa ElSayed

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#19 - Intermission

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#18 - David Breslauer

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#17 - James Fieberg

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#16 - SLAS 2025 Conference Wrap-up

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#15 - Ian Cooper

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#14 - Eli Fine

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#13 - Will Serber

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#12 - AI and Too Much Expertise

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#11 - We've Created a Monster

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#10 - FLASH CAPITAL!

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#9 - The Kids Are Alright

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#8 - Steam Up a Mirror

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#7 - I'm not a PC, i'm a EDC

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#6 - Mutually Assured Advertising

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#5 - "Air Quotes"

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#4 - 3-2-1 Ruck

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#3 - Empowering Automation

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#2 - Useless Technology Rules

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#1 - Activation Energy