technology

Modular cart-based lab automation

Mobile, reconfigurable automation units that let a lab adjust its automated workflow layout as needs change, an alternative to a fixed overhead gantry installation.

Where it's used

Gantry robots for wet labs
Overhead gantry and robotic-arm hardware that physically transports microplates and labware between instruments in an automated wet-lab workflow — the plate-movement layer distinct from the liquid-handling and colony-picking instruments it feeds — sold by four specialists (HighRes Biosolutions, Thermo Fisher, Peak Analysis and Automation, Agilent) spanning integrated automation-system builders through single-instrument microplate movers.
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