Automating Biopharma Workflows with AI and Robotics

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Karthik Raman discusses the impact of AI and robotics on drug formulation in biopharma.

Karthik Raman, co-founder and CEO of Persist AI, sits down with the Nagaraja Srivatsan to discuss how robotics, AI, and cloud tech are supercharging drug formulation to address a bottleneck in pharma R&D. He explains how robots outperform humans in consistency and scale, igniting a flywheel of faster prototyping, richer data, and AI-orchestrated workflows that will propel biopharma innovation amid rising drug complexity.

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Host: Nagaraja Srivatsan

Guest: Karthik Raman

Topics covered

• biopharma
• AI
• robotics
• drug formulation
• pharma R&D
• innovation

Keywords

• biopharma
• AI
• robotics
• drug formulation
• pharma R&D
• innovation
• cloud tech
• workflows

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Organizations: Persist AI

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