Co-work Fridays @ SQCo - The Stage: Dark Labs and Physical AI

Friday @ SQ Collective Friday is our open co-working day. Arrive anytime from 10AM — bring your laptop, grab any open seat, stay as long as you like. Most people show up after lunch and settle in before The Stage. It's quiet, focused, and builder- and founder-led. The Stage @ 3:00pm ⚠️ Special timing this week 🇸🇪 Because this week, we're cohosting 45 Swedish PhDs from the WASP (Wallenberg AI, Autonomous Systems and Software) programme, with Business Sweden. Dark Labs and Physical AI: How Autonomous Laboratories Are Rewriting the Rules of Scientific Discovery Dr Lars Henrik Skjolding, Founder & CEO, A1 Stealth Labs Pte. Ltd. The R&D loop hasn't fundamentally changed in a century. Most lab equipment sits idle overnight. Discovery to market still takes a decade. That's breaking. LLMs capable of scientific reasoning, Bayesian experimental design, and robotic lab platforms are converging into autonomous laboratories, systems that run themselves, steer toward optima, and generate data while you sleep. This talk covers dark labs (lights-off, robot-only execution), physical AI (embodied intelligence under real-world uncertainty), and the 1000× acceleration logic: 10× from AI hypothesis triage, 10× from Bayesian design, 10× from robotic throughput. Using A1 Stealth Labs as a live case study, we will run through what the stack looks like, what clients buy, and how a broad-spectrum IP strategy builds a durable moat. It closes with the question that matters: what will a materials scientist actually be doing in 2035? After the session, we go back to work. About SQ Collective SQ Collective is a co-working space in Singapore for founders and builders working with AI. Fridays are open co-working days with The Stage in the afternoon. Proudly supported by Singapore Global Network Supported by Singapore Global Network (SGN), a division under Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB). Join SGN to become a member of our global network of professionals and friends with Singapore at its heart. Learn more at www.singaporeglobalnetwork.gov.sg__.