Improving the understanding of process chemistry will help to reduce financial risk and enable successful commercialization of biomass conversion technology. One approach to this is to improve the precision, accuracy, and speed of component concentration measurements. We describe a robotic workstation used to automate and increase the precision of such measurements. Automating the workflow will dramatically reduce the number of manual measurements required to analyze biomass samples. The robotic system will keep an electronic record of how each sample was processed in a database facilitating data tracking and mining. This report documents our progress toward developing operational procedures to perform automated compositional analysis of biomass feedstock. Opportunities for improving the accuracy of component concentration measurements are discussed.