Liquid handling robot

It is a robot that dispenses a selected quantity of reagent, samples or other liquid to a designated container.

Liquid handling plays a pivotal role in life science laboratories.

[1] The simplest version simply dispenses an allotted volume of liquid from a motorized pipette or syringe; more complicated machines can also manipulate the position of the dispensers and containers (often a Cartesian coordinate robot, and/or integrate additional laboratory devices, such as centrifuges, microplate readers, heat sealers, heater/shakers, bar code readers, spectrophotometric devices, storage devices and incubators.

These robots achieve the cartesian, 3-axis movements implemented in larger workstations, by means of an arm.

A variety of methods exist for performing quality control of liquid dispensing on automated platforms including gravimetric, fluorescent and colorimetric measurements.