Frost Radar: Laboratory Automation Systems, 2025

A Benchmarking System to Spark Companies to Action - Innovation That Fuels New Deal Flow and Growth Pipelines

The pathology workforce shortage, accuracy concerns, and uneven distribution of prices and resources remain persistent challenges for the diagnostics sector. Automation, a broad concept encompassing processes and practices that streamline workflows, save time, and manage increasing workloads, has become a key response to these issues. By combining hardware and software systems, laboratory automation delivers multiple solutions that reduce costs, minimize human error, and enhance the reliability of clinical workflows, the development of medicines and vaccines, and the efficiency of research processes.

The market is being shaped by the growing adoption of automation systems, alongside increased demand for specialized testing and the influence of new sciences, such as CRISPR, large molecule development, and CAR-T therapy. While the automated liquid handling and sample management system markets are well-established and competitive, the workflow automation system market shows strong growth potential, driven in part by small and midsized vendors offering cloud-based orchestration for workflow management, simulation, and execution. This Frost Radar™ benchmarked companies and their automated liquid handling, sample management, and workflow automation solutions. Companies were selected based on revenue share and the strength of their portfolio across at least two of these market segments. Revenue share is categorized as high (10% or more), medium (2%-9%), or low (less than 2% or absence of a strong product portfolio). The analysis highlights 13 companies that generated revenue from these solutions between 2021 and 2024.

Frost & Sullivan analyzes numerous companies in an industry. Those selected for further analysis based on their leadership or other distinctions are benchmarked across 10 Growth and Innovation criteria to reveal their position on the Frost Radar™. The publication presents competitive profiles of each company on the Frost Radar™ considering their strengths and the opportunities that best fit those strengths.