SciCope
New Version 0.6.10 · picking and putting down a worm, checked at every step

Precise AI automation for biology.

Describe the experiment in plain words. SciCope’s AI turns it into steps you can read, runs them on your own microscope, and measures the result in micrometres and seconds.

SciCope is in development. Downloads are password-protected for now — write to [email protected] for access.

The SciCope desktop app: the Microscope view with the live picture, the camera, stage and light controls, and the assistant beside it.

How it works

From a sentence to a number you can publish

Say what you want

“Focus, scan a 3×3 grid, then photograph every 30 seconds for an hour.” The assistant knows your instruments and turns it into steps you can read.

The microscope runs it — exactly

Cameras, stages, lights and focus, driven from your Mac or PC in a closed loop. Every picture is saved with the settings it was taken with.

Measure and verify

Track and measure in micrometres and seconds. The app lists what it is unsure about, and you fix it with a click.

Works with your lab

Drives the instruments you already have

  • Newport XPS
  • ZEISS Axio Imager
  • ZEISS Smartzoom
  • Andor EMCCD
  • Thorlabs
  • Optotune
  • GRBL · Arduino
  • Marlin
  • Android and iPhone

The full list, with what has been tested on real hardware

Your bench, your AI, your data

Nothing leaves your lab unless you ask

Runs on your computer

The engine that drives the hardware runs locally. One red STOP — or the Escape key — halts every move and every job.

Your own AI account

Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or DeepSeek with your key, or the Claude Code and Codex apps. There is no SciCope account.

No SciCope cloud

Pictures stay in your folders. This website loads nothing from other servers and runs no analytics.

What travels where

See it run before you plug anything in.

The demo microscope inside the app simulates a camera, a stage, a light and a focus lens on a worm plate. Autofocus, scans, tracking, programs, the assistant and the whole analysis work on it.