SPT Labtech and 10x Genomics announced a strategic partnership to integrate SPT’s Firefly liquid‑handling automation with 10x’s Chromium single‑cell platform, with plans to extend to Visium spatial assays. The collaboration provides plug‑and‑play protocols and cloud‑accessible methods to streamline library prep and scale single‑cell experiments. The partners said the joint offering will reduce manual bottlenecks and lower the barrier to high‑throughput single‑cell and spatial transcriptomics for both academic and commercial labs.