The 6,000-square-metre autonomous R&D facility, backed by Siemens, ABB Robotics, NVIDIA, AWS and ILS, is positioned as Europe’s answer to the materials-verification bottleneck that AI-led design has opened up.
Dunia Innovations, the Berlin-based deeptech company building autonomous infrastructure for materials R&D, announced plans on Wednesday for a 6,000-square-metre, €280m facility in Berlin called GigaLab, designed to discover and develop advanced materials at industrial scale.
Siemens, ABB Robotics, NVIDIA, AWS and ILS will provide core technology. The facility is expected to create over 200 direct jobs and begin operations in 2028.
Founded in 2022, Dunia operates an integrated platform that combines AI, lab automation and simulation into a closed-loop system serving customers in catalysts, batteries and semiconductors. The first-generation platform launched in 2023; the second-generation IRIS platform went live in May 2025.
The 💜 of EU techThe latest rumblings from the EU tech scene, a story from our wise ol' founder Boris, and some questionable AI art. It's free, every week, in your inbox. Sign up now!GigaLab is the company’s bet that the next bottleneck in frontier materials discovery is not algorithmic but physical: the experimental-verification capacity needed to validate the millions of candidate materials AI models are now generating.
