🎙️ Guest: Madeline Wolf | Founder, The Automated Lab 🎧 Hosts: Mike Ouren, Sura Hadi, and Elizabeth Rodziewicz📺 Series: Automation in the WildTitle: Blueprints, Bots & Breaking In: Building The Automated Lab from the Ground Up"You can’t automate what you don’t understand." – Madeline WolfIn this episode, we sit down with Madeline Wolf, a seasoned automation engineer, product manager, and founder of The Automated Lab. From developing modular RAC systems at Ginkgo to building a community-first education hub for automation engineers, Madeline shares real-world lessons on scaling platforms, managing human factors, and breaking the mold in biotech.🧠 What You’ll Learn:Why the RAC system changed how modular automation is doneWhat makes human-centered design essential in lab systemsHow The Automated Lab is filling the education gap in biotech automationLessons from automation failure, sticker wisdom & user empathyHow product management grows from engineering roots☕ Whether you're building robots, mentoring teams, or exploring your next big automation challenge—this episode will shift how you think.🎧 Subscribe for new episodes weekly →    / @helicalbrew   📩 Want to be a guest? Email us: [email protected] 📍 TikTok, Shorts & more: @helicalbrew ⏱️ EPISODE CHAPTERS – NAVIGATE THE EPISODE 00:00 – Intro & Icebreaker 02:10 – DNA, Bugs & First Automation Aha! 05:00 – Early Career & Systems That Should’ve Exploded 07:15 – Zymergen, Ginkgo & Factory-Scale Automation 13:30 – What Modular Really Means (and Doesn’t) 20:00 – Human Factors in Automated Workflows 26:15 – Going Meta: From Engineer to Product Manager 31:00 – User Error or Engineering Failure? 37:00 – Why Stickers Save Robots 42:15 – Building The Automated Lab 47:15 – Education as the Trojan Horse for Change 54:00 – The Future of Modular Hardware & Open Source 1:03:15 – Dream Challenges & Industry Shifts 1:14:00 – Picks of the Week: Scary Squids & Switch Games 1:20:00 – Wrap-Up & Where to Find Madeline 🔗 Connect with Madeline Wolf Website: https://theautomatedlab.com LinkedIn:   / madelinewolf  📌 SHORTS (Quick Clips from the Episode) ▶️    • Balancing Engineering & Human Needs #helic...   ▶️    • Lab Automation Basics—What They Don’t Tell...  💬 “Stickers go farther than you'd think in automation.”#HelicalBrew #AutomationInTheWild #LabAutomation #WomenInSTEM #BiotechInnovation #ScientificStorytelling #FoundersInTech #RoboticsEngineering #BiotechOps #PodcastClip #OpenSourceScience #HumanCenteredDesign #scientificliteracy #engineeringeducation #biotechstartup #techpodcast #modularautomation #sciencepodcast #viralshorts #podcastshorts

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