Laboratory liquid handling robots
Sound waves eject precisely-sized droplets of 2. Larger volumes are transferred at the rate of hundreds of droplets per second. Ease of use is an important feature of any system, as researchers value their time and are adopting faster, turnkey solutions.
Ease of use also minimizes costly mistakes, giving more reliable results. Labs of all sizes appreciate instruments that are easier to use. But in contrast to big labs performing high-throughput screening, smaller labs today have different needs—their throughput is lower, yet increasingly they are generating multidimensional results. The increasing complexity of their experiments and results means that they want more simplicity when it comes to instrumentation.
Gilson is removing complexity with turnkey, application-focused methods called assistants. He expects to see more turnkey applications that do exactly what the customer needs them to do, and very simply. For example, you can add multiple channels or multi-probe heads and parallel processing to increase throughput, and add barcode scanning and activate total aspiration and dispense monitoring to improve traceability.
Among the many factors to consider when looking for a liquid handler, the ones that matter most are the ones that affect your particular research. Remember to account for possible future needs for throughput, adding value to your research, focused applications support, ease of use and flexibility.
Adapting throughput Even 20 years ago, most liquid handlers were designed for process automation and high throughput screening HTS —and that was it.
Adding value Considering throughput level is a great first step, but then consider whether a system will be adding value to your research, Barrett advises.
Applications Liquid handlers are used in a wide range of applications today. Expert-contributed best practices that you need to know. Liquid handling is a near-universal need for laboratories experimenting and studying biological sciences.
At one time, automated liquid handlers Anthropomorphic robots better integrate into laboratories designed for manual pipetting operations, since they can strictly reproduce the pipetting procedures adopted by humans. In some cases like the "Andrew" system shown on the right [1] they can even use the same pipettes and consumables, being based on camera-based vision algorithms like those implemented in modern domotics and robotics developments.
Liquid handling robots can be customized using different add-on modules such as centrifuges , PCR machines , colony pickers , shaking modules , heating modules and others.
Some liquid handling robots utilize Acoustic Liquid Handling which uses sound to move liquids without the traditional pipette or syringe. Control software, either on a connected computer, or integrated into the system itself, allows the user to customize the liquid handling procedures and transfer volumes. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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