The Future Lab: easy and flexible automated

Previous laboratory automations are very expensive. They create dependencies and become dinosaurs, which won´t be used in laboratories and only cause investment ruins, due to little flexibility. This is the opposite of sustainable and economical.

How is it possible to realize all these advantages, at the same time, while being less expensive than previous solutions?

This is possible due to a completely new approach: The smart combination of several rapidly developing mainstream technologies through „Artificial Intelligence“. The new possibilities develop a lot faster, broader and more stable than any classic laboratory automation ever could. Incredible things are already possible now e.g. the integration of devices in automated processes, which have no interface at all, to name just one example.

The new evolutionary approach

The centre of this new approach is a special, easy to teach collaborative robot. This „Cobot“ can on one hand, work directly and absolutely safe with people hand in hand, and on the other hand operate a manual workplace completely on its own. It can transport different vessels from one device to another, while taking modified positions into account, pipetting, operating different devices and much more. Through the lens of an autofocus-camera on the cobot, positions and their changes can be recognized by mixers or rotors and readjusted via AI. Barcodes, displays and keys can be read, interpreted and operated. Even results on the display of a device can be read, digitized and passed on via Wi-Fi. This implies that an interface for integrating the devices is no longer needed and equipment that has already been proven in the laboratory with an unknown interface can still be used for automation. This is a big contribution to sustainability that also saves enormous costs and working space.