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The Tactus AI booth at ADLM 2026, with Elsie the humanoid lab assistant standing in front of the Tactus banner while two laboratory scientists work beside her

Featured · Event

Elsie's First Show: Three Days on the Floor at ADLM 2026

Five days after we announced her name, Elsie by Tactus, our autonomous humanoid lab assistant, met the clinical laboratory industry at booth 2616 in Anaheim. Here is what three days on the ADLM floor told us.

August 6, 2026

Elsie by Tactus, the autonomous humanoid lab assistant, holds a rack of specimen tubes at the bench while a laboratory scientist works behind her

Announcement

Her Name Is Elsie

Our autonomous humanoid lab assistant has a name. It belongs to the first robot in history that explored the world on its own, built in a laboratory in 1949.

July 23, 2026

The Tactus AI humanoid robotic lab assistant raises an arm to a crowd of guests at the Tactus AI Open House in San Diego

Event

We Opened Our Doors: Inside Our First Open House

Laboratory leaders, industry partners, friends, and family came to our San Diego campus to see what it looks like when a humanoid robotic lab assistant works alongside a lab team.

June 17, 2026

The exhibition floor at the Robotics Summit & Expo in Boston, seen from above

Industry

What Makes a Robot "Worthy"? Reflections from Robotics Summit 2026

Tactus AI CCO Mike Quick reflects on his first Robotics Summit & Expo, and why the gap between a demo and a robot doing real work comes down to a single question.

May 29, 2026

Mike Quick of Tactus AI on the Automation, Robotics, and the Future Lab Workforce panel at Executive War College in New Orleans

Industry

Tactus AI Joins Industry Leaders at Executive War College to Chart the Future of Lab Automation

Tactus AI CCO Mike Quick joined a featured panel at Executive War College in New Orleans to discuss how robotics, AI, and humanoid systems will reshape laboratory workflows over the next five years.

April 29, 2026

UC San Diego engineering students with the Tactus AI robot at the Tactus lab

Partnership

Tactus AI Partners with UC San Diego Engineering Students to Design the Next Generation of Robot Grippers

Senior engineering students from UCSD's Jacobs School of Engineering are tackling one of the fundamental challenges in laboratory robotics, designing a gripper for the lab of the future.

April 6, 2026

Mike Quick and Claire Weston of Tactus AI at the USCAP 2026 sign in San Antonio

Industry

Is Your Lab Robot Ready? Reflections from USCAP 2026

The Tactus AI team reflects on USCAP 2026, where AI dominated but the physical workflow gap remains.

March 31, 2026

Announcement

Tactus AI Joins the Digital Pathology Association

Tactus AI is now an official Industry Member of the Digital Pathology Association, the first robotics company to join.

March 17, 2026

Announcement

Hello, World. Meet Tactus AI.

We're building autonomous lab assistants, embodied AI purpose-built for healthcare and pharmaceutical laboratories.

February 24, 2026

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