Robot readiness

Is your lab robot‑ready?

Humanoid robots are stepping up to the bench. Answer fourteen quick questions about your lab — its instruments, its corridors, its doors — and get an honest readiness score, plus the exact punch list that would put Elsie to work in your lab.

3 minutes · free · instant score · no sign‑up
Elsie, the Tactus humanoid lab assistant, in the laboratory
Elsie by Tactus · at Certis Oncology, San Diego
The first job

One loop. Four instruments. Zero IT projects.

One pilot focuses on the highest-value loop in digital pathology — the one that eats multiple staff trips a day in a busy lab. Elsie runs your instruments the way your technologists do: reading screens, lights and status indicators with her own cameras. No LIS integration. No instrument modifications.

1

Unload the coverslipper

Elsie watches for the ready indicator on your Leica or Sakura coverslipper, opens the drawer, and lifts the finished rack — clip and all.

2

Deliver anywhere in the lab

Down the corridor, through the doors, to the scanner room — or wherever slides need to be. All day, every rack, on her own.

3

Load & unload the scanner

Any open slot on your Leica GT450 or Hamamatsu S540. She monitors scan status and collects completed racks for foldering.

Elsie carrying slides through a working laboratory corridor
Leica HistoCore SPECTRA Sakura Tissue‑Tek Leica Aperio GT450 Hamamatsu NanoZoomer S540
24/7
scanners running around the clock,
not just day shift
0
off‑shift histotechs you'd
otherwise have to hire
The part most people get wrong

Most of the work happens before a robot ever ships.

A humanoid doesn't show up and improvise. By the time Elsie rolls onto your floor, she has already run your workflow thousands to millions of times — in a physics-accurate digital twin of your actual lab.

01

Digital twin

A 3D model of your space built from a guided phone scan and your floor plan — real instruments at their real positions, bench heights, doorways, thresholds.

02

Simulation training

Thousands to millions of task iterations, including the corner cases: a rack placed crooked, a door that sticks, a cart in the aisle.

03

Physical validation

Sim-to-real transfer onto the same physical instruments in our San Diego laboratory before anything ships to yours.

04

On-site tuning

Elsie arrives already knowing the workflow. Final calibration to your space and your team — then go-live.

The quiz

Fourteen questions between
you and your score.

Instruments, corridors, doors, power, people. Each question tells you a little about what robots actually need — and at the end you'll get a readiness score, a verdict, and your lab's personal punch list.

14questions
~3minutes
100point scale

Nothing is submitted until you choose to share your results — until then, your answers stay in your browser.