Colibri Platform™

Modern in-situ TEM experiments do not produce just images. They produce experimental events: images, timestamps, microscope conditions, holder state, temperature, bias, current, gas flow, pressure, liquid conditions, sample notes, and system history. Colibri is designed to preserve that experiment.

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Colibri Platform™ is Hummingbird Scientific’s open data platform for in-situ microscopy. It captures and aligns experiment metadata with image timing, creating structured records that can move across OEM software, open-source tools, institutional systems, Python workflows, and future AI environments.

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Colibri is not a closed software ecosystem. It does not replace the microscope operating system. It is not designed to own the customer’s analysis workflow. It is an open data layer that connects the experiment.

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The customer owns the workflow.

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Colibri Platform™

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1. Hummingbird Control™ — direct holder and accessory operation
2. Hummingbird Connect™ — microscope/OEM/lab workflow integration
3. Automation — AI-ready, metadata-ready, and Python-ready workflow orchestration
4. Data Managment — metadata, telemetry, export, archive, experiment record

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Closed software platforms often promise a unified interface, workflow, or ecosystem. In practice, that model can turn software into a layer of control — where the interface becomes the gateway, and the gateway favors the vendor.

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Colibri is built around a different idea.

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The microscope remains the center of the microscopy workflow. OEM environments are respected. Open-source tools remain available. Facility data systems remain in control. Researchers decide how their data is analyzed, stored, and reused.

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Colibri’s role is intentionally focused: to capture, align, and export the experiment without restricting it.

AI-ready microscopy requires more than pixels. It requires context.

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An image without temperature, bias, gas flow, pressure, liquid conditions, microscope state, sample history, and timing information is incomplete. It may be useful visually, but it is difficult to reproduce, compare, search, or use in automated workflows.

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Colibri preserves the data around the image. That is the difference between a file and an experiment record.