Who we are.

Whelix was founded by scientists and engineers who experienced the limits of manual cell culture firsthand. During his PhD research in biomedical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, CEO Bingda Li experienced how repetitive pipetting, frequent night and weekend lab visits, inconsistent results, and contamination slowed progress across life-science research.

Too much scientific talent was being spent on cell expansion and maintenance instead of discovery. Believing this problem demanded a new paradigm, Bingda partnered with CTO Xinyu Wang, a robotics researcher at CMU, to reimagine how cell culture should be done.

Together, they founded Whelix to build intelligent, compact, modular, and affordable robotic platforms that automate cell culture end to end. By uniting cell biology, robotics, and AI, Whelix is transforming cell culture from a bottleneck into a scalable, reliable foundation for modern biology.