This is a robot platform that can be fitted a standard Gibson pipette to conduct repetitive open-loop small-quantity liquid handling. Its is a heavily modified version of the opentrons.comOT.ONE. Here provided open, with the hope it can help budget labs to obtain an automated solution to help with the work load, or plainly curious minds who want to play around with molecular biology. I have produced a working prototype of this a couple of years ago : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlGT0nzT_E8and I will try and document the process here as well as discuss possible improvements to the design. Thank you for viewing and happy building!
I'd like to share the good news that Michel Vorasane, an undergraduate student in Biology and ecology with an electronic engineering background has joined the team. He will be constructing one of his own, and we aim to get an improved design ,based on the knowledge from the prototype, as well as documenting the process as he makes progress.
Hey thanks! I made this a couple of years ago, and after a little nod I thought I it would be good to start making steps to document it. Let me know if you are on it, at some point.
Hi Kostas, I have seen Opentrons in one of my friends lab. We made some enhancements for that. I really love that machine. I think that it is a good idea to just modify an eletronic pipette rather than controlling a manual pipette electronically.
Great work. I am definitely interested in this.