Berlin’s Dunia Innovations commits €280M to an autonomous AI-materials GigaLab

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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.

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