SHENZHEN, China , July 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- MGI's subsidiary, Genoria AI, in collaboration with the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, today announced the launch of two breakthrough innovations that close the gap between digital intelligence and physical execution in biology: ProtoPilot, a self-evolving multi-agent system driven by real-world laboratory scenarios; and BioLab Bench, the industry's first comprehensive evaluation framework that assesses AI agents from user requirements to executable device operations.
Together, these innovations establish a new paradigm—Physical AI for life sciences—where intelligent agents do not merely generate textual answers but translate experimental intent into physically executable, verifiable, and reproducible actions on automated lab platforms. The research behind it was published as a preprint on arXiv (arXiv:2606.31763) in June 2026.
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