POSTS TAGGED AS laboratory automation

“Smarter” Test Tubes

With the aim of enhancing laboratory automation, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Biomedical Engineering (St. Ingbert, Germany) [MORE]

Robotic -180 degrees C “Smart Freezer”

Smart Freezer
With biorepository freezers, costs go up as temperatures go down.  And, until recently it has been close to [MORE]

50 Year Perspective on Robotics

This piece hardly mentions medical or healthcare robotics, but its review of changes in vision, force control and tactile [MORE]

Microbial Microarray Device

Gene Disc System
Pall Corporation (Port Washington, NY) recently introduced its quantitative PCR platform called “Gene Disc.”  Instead of taking [MORE]

Upward Trend for Microfluidic Chips

Kevin Hrusovsky
Microfluidics applications are rising in both scientific and clinical medicine and Kevin Hrusovsky, CEO of chip-maker Caliper Life [MORE]

New High Speed Automated Blood Analyzer

Bio-Rad’s (Hercules, CA) new blood screening instrument “offers full automation, integrated QC and validation, intuitive software, and walk-away convenience [MORE]

Swisslog’s Lab and Pharmacy Robots

Swisslog Robot
Put in several lab specimens or other materials weighing up to 50 pounds, push a button and watch [MORE]

Newborn Screening

PerkinElmer (Waltham, MA and Fremont, CA) has introduced an automated platform that quantitatively and qualitatively analyzes neonate blood samples [MORE]

Remote Monitoring of Lab Equipment

Ortho Clinical Diagnostics recently opened a 24-7 equipment monitoring center in Rochester, NY, which allows continuously tracking of laboratory equipment [MORE]