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Tecan is a robotics company founded 1980, based in Switzerland, developing 4 robots primarily in the Surgical / Medical category.
CAPITAL & EVIDENCE
Tecan has no confirmed funding round on file and has 3 known customers, none yet tied to a specific model.
Shipped
3 known customers — no deployment yet tied to a specific model
Used by
Named in a public source that did not say which model
- Department of Health and Human Services· United Statesusaspending.gov
- Department of Agriculture· United Statesusaspending.gov
- Department of Defense· United Statesusaspending.gov
Also cited
- Oxford Nanopore Technologies· 2023facebook.com ↗
- HP· 2023hp.com ↗
Automated benchtop and liquid handling systems for life science labs, enabling precision in single-cell workflows and diagnostic testing.
Tecan Life Sciences builds automated benchtop instruments and liquid handling platforms including Freedom EVO®, Fluent®, and Uno Single Cell Dispenser. These systems are used by life science labs, diagnostic centers, and pharmaceutical R&D teams for single-cell isolation, ELISA, and high-throughput screening. Key differentiators include modularity, ease of integration, and precision in small-volume workflows. The company operates globally with manufacturing and R&D sites in Europe and North America.
Active products
4
RoboIndex
51.25
RoboScore 51.25 + Momentum 0.00
Company facts
- HQ
- Zurich, Switzerland
- Founded
- 1980 · 46 yrs
- Employees
- 3,500
- Website
- lifesciences.tecan.com
RoboScore
51.25 RoboScore + 0.00 Momentum· Adequate evidence
Products 65%, Depth 5%, Evidence 30% set the number, and every rated company has all three. Attention has no weight of its own — it is one of the two things Evidence is built from, and it can only ever add. Activity and Readiness describe the brand but never move it. A value we don't have reads —, never zero. Momentum is independently collected news coverage, worth at most 15 points and never a deduction — a maker we have heard nothing about keeps its full RoboScore. Claiming or paying moves nothing.
5 of 6 factors known. How it's calculated
On the company boards
- #11 of 39·Surgical / Medical·best robot 56.74 + depth 1.67 + news 0.00 = total 58.41
- #275 of 338·Industrial Arm·best robot 42.72 + depth 0.00 + news 0.00 = total 42.72
A board total ranks makers within one category. It is built from the best robot's RoboScore, a capped credit for more ranked robots, and news. It is not this company's RoboIndex above. How boards work
Milestones
Sales of new Freedom EVO instruments ended on December 31, 2025.
Partnered with Oxford Nanopore Technologies to enhance nanopore sequencing accessibility.
Extended HP partnership to improve access to Uno Single Cell Dispenser.
Press coverage
- New HP Partnership Extends Access to Uno Single Cell Dispenser
HP Newsroom · Jun 2023
- Uno Single Cell Dispenser - Automated Benchtop Instrument for Single-Cell Workflows
Select Science · Nov 2022
- Oxford Nanopore and Tecan Partner to Make Nanopore Sequencing More Accessible
Facebook - Tecan · May 2023
Public loss record
Switzerland sits outside the EU Safety Gate and we have found no national product-incident register covering robots. A blank record here is unmeasured.
Active products by Tecan
4 shown| # | Category | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | Fluent® | Surgical / Medical | 2014 | 56.8 |
| 2 |  | Uno Single Cell Dispenser | Surgical / Medical | 2023 | 56.7 |
| 3 |  | Freedom EVO® | Surgical / Medical | — | 50.7 |
| 4 |  | Duo Digital Dispenser | Industrial Arm | — | 42.7 |
Surgical / Medical buying guides
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