Helping researchers look up — and forward.
Tsubame Lab is a tech company that works alongside research institutions to raise the potential of their R&D.
About Tsubame Lab
We are a lab automation startup founded by researchers from Science Tokyo. In the lab, much experimentation still depends on manual work, and researchers' creative time is consumed by repetition. Having felt that pain firsthand, our mission is to automate every action and unlock the full potential of R&D.
By combining collaborative robots, functional modules, and our own control platform, Tsubame Studio, we automate everything from sample prep to measurement and recording. Because one team holds life-science expertise, hardware engineering, and AI/software engineering together, we can deliver things that actually work to the research floor.
Mission
Tsubame Lab is a startup born out of Science Tokyo, founded on the mission “Robotics, as a choice for everyone.”
Creating a new research environment where people and robots work together — so researchers can focus on more creative work — is where we begin.
“The more AI accelerates hypothesis generation and analysis, the more important physical experimentation becomes. We want to build an environment where researchers spend less time on repetitive work and more on the essential questions and judgments.”
Our Story
The challenges we felt in the lab are where Tsubame Lab began.
Our CEO, Narazaki, repeatedly faced the reality that so much experimentation depends on manual labor, eroding creative time. Even as instruments and robots advance, manual work remains in connecting devices and adapting to individual experiments. We founded Tsubame Lab to resolve that structural bottleneck.
“Build a future where researchers can spend their time on research itself.” That conviction is what drives Tsubame Lab today.
Team
A team of professionals who engage sincerely with R&D and researchers and see problems through. Leave it to us.
CEO
Narazaki Koshiro
Doctoral student in Robotics Science at Institute of Science Tokyo. Specializing in life science and robotics, he has been engaged in lab automation R&D for seven years, aiming to accelerate scientific progress and contribute to research worldwide through the automation of experiments.
CAIO
Inakawa Masaya
Doctoral student in Robotics at Tohoku University's Graduate School of Engineering. His research experience in bioscience revealed the challenges of experimental work first-hand, leading him to robotics to solve them. Specializes in lab automation systems, working on robot control, AI, and the design and development of automation systems.
CSO
Hata Kenshiro
Completed graduate studies in Biological Engineering at Tokyo University of Science and an MBA at Waseda Business School. A biotechnology specialist, he worked at the research institute of a TSE Prime-listed company on microbial and virus control technologies and the creation of new research themes. Drives the social implementation of research and new business development, combining technology and management.
Recognition
A selection of representative achievements. The full list of programs and awards is available on its own page.
Science Tokyo Certified Venture No. 15
Selected — ASAC Acceleration Program
Grand Prize — Lean LaunchPad Program National Conference
Company Profile
- Company
- Tsubame Lab, Inc.
- Founded
- April 18, 2025
- Capital
- 5,000,000 JPY
- Address
- HighCity Yushima 3F, 3-4-6 Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0034
- info@tsubamelab.com
- CEO
- Koshiro Narazaki
- Business
- Advancing lab automation — contract robotics, cloud lab, and platform businesses
Locations
- Headquarters
- HighCity Yushima 3F, 3-4-6 Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0034
- Yushima Wet Lab
- Science Tokyo Yushima/Surugadai Campus, 1-5-45 Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8510
- Shirahige-Nishi R&D Center
- 8-5-7 Minamisenju, Arakawa-ku, Tokyo 116-0003
Let’s design what comes
next for your lab — together.
Reach out about lab automation, joint PoC studies, or arranging a visit. Your first consultation is free.