Lab Informatics Expert Shares Presentation on AI-Driven Lab Automation
July 31, 2026 | Clarkston Consulting’s Tina Yauger recently presented on AI-driven lab automation for the life sciences industry during a LabManager event. Read an excerpt below and the full article here.
From Pipettes to Predictions: How AI-Driven Lab Automation Is Redefining the Modern Life Sciences Laboratory
“The modern life sciences laboratory is undergoing a quiet but profound transformation. The pipette-driven bench that defined generations of scientific work is giving way to connected, self-directing systems that design experiments, execute them, and learn from the results. Yet the path forward is not about handing the lab over to algorithms, but about sequencing change intelligently and preserving the human judgment that keeps science credible. AI-driven lab automation works best when artificial intelligence augments skilled scientists rather than displacing them. That was the central message from Tina Yauger, principal consultant and technical lead at Clarkson Consulting, during her session at the 2026 AI in Lab Automation Digital Summit. With more than 16 years of experience in laboratory information management systems (LIMS) and lab informatics across pharmaceutical, cell and gene therapy, biologics, and food and beverage settings, Yauger offered lab leaders a grounded roadmap for modernization—one that treats AI as an amplifier of human capability, not a replacement.”