diff --git a/api/Pipfile b/api/Pipfile
index 950a39b9f71..9a34f67d19c 100755
--- a/api/Pipfile
+++ b/api/Pipfile
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ opentrons-hardware = { editable = true, path = "./../hardware", extras=["FLEX"]
 numpy = "==1.22.3"
 packaging = "==21.3"
 pyusb = "==1.2.1"
+scipy = "==1.8.1"
 
 [dev-packages]
 # atomicwrites and colorama are pytest dependencies on windows,
diff --git a/api/Pipfile.lock b/api/Pipfile.lock
index f423cb7e2ca..b96d9272960 100644
--- a/api/Pipfile.lock
+++ b/api/Pipfile.lock
@@ -299,6 +299,36 @@
             "markers": "python_full_version >= '3.6.0'",
             "version": "==1.2.1"
         },
+        "scipy": {
+            "hashes": [
+                "sha256:02b567e722d62bddd4ac253dafb01ce7ed8742cf8031aea030a41414b86c1125",
+                "sha256:1166514aa3bbf04cb5941027c6e294a000bba0cf00f5cdac6c77f2dad479b434",
+                "sha256:1da52b45ce1a24a4a22db6c157c38b39885a990a566748fc904ec9f03ed8c6ba",
+                "sha256:23b22fbeef3807966ea42d8163322366dd89da9bebdc075da7034cee3a1441ca",
+                "sha256:28d2cab0c6ac5aa131cc5071a3a1d8e1366dad82288d9ec2ca44df78fb50e649",
+                "sha256:2ef0fbc8bcf102c1998c1f16f15befe7cffba90895d6e84861cd6c6a33fb54f6",
+                "sha256:3b69b90c9419884efeffaac2c38376d6ef566e6e730a231e15722b0ab58f0328",
+                "sha256:4b93ec6f4c3c4d041b26b5f179a6aab8f5045423117ae7a45ba9710301d7e462",
+                "sha256:4e53a55f6a4f22de01ffe1d2f016e30adedb67a699a310cdcac312806807ca81",
+                "sha256:6311e3ae9cc75f77c33076cb2794fb0606f14c8f1b1c9ff8ce6005ba2c283621",
+                "sha256:65b77f20202599c51eb2771d11a6b899b97989159b7975e9b5259594f1d35ef4",
+                "sha256:6cc6b33139eb63f30725d5f7fa175763dc2df6a8f38ddf8df971f7c345b652dc",
+                "sha256:70de2f11bf64ca9921fda018864c78af7147025e467ce9f4a11bc877266900a6",
+                "sha256:70ebc84134cf0c504ce6a5f12d6db92cb2a8a53a49437a6bb4edca0bc101f11c",
+                "sha256:83606129247e7610b58d0e1e93d2c5133959e9cf93555d3c27e536892f1ba1f2",
+                "sha256:93d07494a8900d55492401917a119948ed330b8c3f1d700e0b904a578f10ead4",
+                "sha256:9c4e3ae8a716c8b3151e16c05edb1daf4cb4d866caa385e861556aff41300c14",
+                "sha256:9dd4012ac599a1e7eb63c114d1eee1bcfc6dc75a29b589ff0ad0bb3d9412034f",
+                "sha256:9e3fb1b0e896f14a85aa9a28d5f755daaeeb54c897b746df7a55ccb02b340f33",
+                "sha256:a0aa8220b89b2e3748a2836fbfa116194378910f1a6e78e4675a095bcd2c762d",
+                "sha256:d3b3c8924252caaffc54d4a99f1360aeec001e61267595561089f8b5900821bb",
+                "sha256:e013aed00ed776d790be4cb32826adb72799c61e318676172495383ba4570aa4",
+                "sha256:f3e7a8867f307e3359cc0ed2c63b61a1e33a19080f92fe377bc7d49f646f2ec1"
+            ],
+            "index": "pypi",
+            "markers": "python_version < '3.11' and python_version >= '3.8'",
+            "version": "==1.8.1"
+        },
         "setuptools": {
             "hashes": [
                 "sha256:937a48c7cdb7a21eb53cd7f9b59e525503aa8abaf3584c730dc5f7a5bec3a650",