Liquid handling robot
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A liquid handling robot is used to automate workflows in life science laboratories. It is a robot that dispenses a selected quantity of reagent, samples or other liquid to a designated container.
A Tecan Freedom EVO & Temo liquid handling robot
An example of anthropomorphic robot for liquid handling (Andrew Alliance)
Pipetting heads of a liquid handling robot
Robot manipulating electronic pipettes
Thermal cycler
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The thermal cycler is a laboratory apparatus most commonly used to amplify segments of DNA via the polymerase chain reaction. Thermal cyclers may also be used in laboratories to facilitate other tempe
Liquid handling robot
…implemented in larger workstations, by means of an arm. 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 (also known as acoustic…
Baby Blue, a prototype automated thermal cycler built around 1986
A very early PCR machine which, rather than cycling through different temperatures, uses three different water baths at constant temperatures between which samples are moved with a robotic arm