21 LIMS & Lab Automation
In practice, operation of the Mohawk during tube picking can be very quick, with experienced operators reporting that they can pick tubes from multiple racks into a destination rack at a rate of about 20-25 tubes per minute. This compares very favourably with ‘pick & place’ robots which tend to be much slower. That allows unwanted thawing and heating of frozen samples which can be catastrophic for delicate samples.
This powerful combination of the Mohawk and Mirage is being used by scientists in busy laboratories across Europe, especially in blood banking facilities, where users all report high levels of satisfaction.
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Steve Knight has more than 30 years’ experience in the design & marketing of laboratory instrumentation and robotics. He holds a BSc in Biochemistry and an MA in Marketing and has specialised in developing small to medium sized robotic-compatible instrumentation for drug discovery for the past 15 years.
Figure 3. Automated tube picking in action.
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