# Vivodyne says it opened autonomous human-tissue lab facility near San Francisco

_Wednesday, August 19, 2026 at 8:00 AM EDT · AI, Science · Latest · Tier 2 — Notable_

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Vivodyne says it opened a facility near San Francisco last week that it calls the world's largest human data center.

Its modular HIVE robotic labs grow human tissue, dose it and monitor experiments to generate biological data for drug development and AI models. The company says it has raised just under $80 million and is working with multiple major pharmaceutical companies, though it does not name them.

Vivodyne also reports performance figures for its tissue systems, but those company-reported results are not independently verified in the supplied source.

## Sources

- [Startups | TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/19/ai-isnt-close-to-curing-cancer-this-startup-says-it-knows-what-it-will-take/)

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