These precise platforms are designed to move liquids precisely from one vessel to another in applications ranging from DNA/RNA purification and DNA sequencing to high-throughput screening of pharmaceutical compounds. As a technology, it has become a powerful and popular tool in labs throughout the life science industry.

The development and optimization of automated liquid handlers have allowed countless essential techniques to be performed much more quickly and accurately in research and therapeutic applications. For example, manual sample preparation has always been an overwhelming and time-consuming task that creates bottlenecks in your routine lab.

However, scientists and technicians can free up time and achieve consistent and reproducible upstream sample prep by introducing automated liquid handlers into the lab. This has made liquid handlers a cornerstone instrument in any automated laboratory.

For example, research labs where scientists create and use monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) to label and track a wide range of targets require precise liquid handling, something that’s accomplished accurately and repeatably using automated liquid handling platforms.

Additionally, liquid handler lab ware, such as tube racks, tube rack inserts, micro-centrifuge tubes, and cap mats, make your job even easier.

Robotic automation has revolutionized the speed of scientific development and saved countless laboratories time and resources, providing greater reproducibility and eliminating technician-to-technician variability. While every automated liquid handling experiment is unique in terms of throughput, reagents, volumes, order of addition, and readout, several features are central to all liquid handling technologies. We cover those features below.