Cell Mates
Cell Mates
Podcast Description
Cell Mates is a podcast where we bring together engineers and scientists to tackle the distinct challenges of pharma automation. By combining engineering expertise with scientific insight, we explore how robotics, automation, and AI are advancing the future of pharmaceutical manufacturing. Our mission is to foster collaboration across disciplines and highlight the innovations driving forward the future of the pharmaceutical space.
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The podcast delves into themes like the integration of robotics in pharma manufacturing, cross-disciplinary innovation, and the impact of AI on personalized therapies, with episodes featuring topics such as misunderstandings between scientists and engineers and the role of automation in enhancing manufacturing scalability.

Cell Mates is a podcast where we bring together engineers and scientists to tackle the distinct challenges of pharma automation.
By combining engineering expertise with scientific insight, we explore how robotics, automation, and AI are advancing the future of pharmaceutical manufacturing.
Our mission is to foster collaboration across disciplines and highlight the innovations driving forward the future of the pharmaceutical space.
What does it take to build the infrastructure that helps robotics teams understand, debug, and improve increasingly complex systems?
In this special founder’s episode of Cell Mates, the format is flipped: Adrian MacNeil, Co-Founder and CEO of Foxglove, interviews Fred Parietti, Co-Founder and CEO of Multiply Labs.
Highlights include:
- The founder journey behind building companies at the frontier of robotics infrastructure and biological manufacturing.
- What robotics companies need to scale from development into real-world deployment
- How robotics and automation could reshape the future of pharmaceutical manufacturing
This episode offers a candid look at the technical and strategic challenges behind building dependable robotic systems – and the infrastructure required to support them.
New to Cell Mates? We’re the podcast where pharma, robotics, and automation collide to reimagine the future of medicine – one operation at a time.

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