Robotic sample loading for GelCount™
Unlocking its true throughput potential
Oxford Optronix are proud to announce the availability of an automated, robotic sample loading solution for its popular GelCount™ organoid and colony counting imager system.
Developed in collaboration with Astech Projects Ltd., UK, and based on the company’s Robotic Benchtop Assistant (RBA) platform, the solution provides a turnkey, benchtop solution to automate the loading, imaging, unloading, and processing of samples arising from large scale colony, spheroid, or organoid formation assays.
With up to 6 sample loading plates per custom ‘hotel’ stack, the solution can be configured to autonomously process up to 48 multi-well plates per session.
The solution is both forward-compatible with our second-generation GelCount 2 device, and backward-compatible with our first-generation GelCount devices already widely in use globally.
Describing the news, Michael Rau, Sales Director at Oxford Optronix commented, “We’re excited to finally be able to unlock the true throughput potential of GelCount by offering this amazing robotic loading solution developed in collaboration with our friends at Astech Project Ltd. This will be great news to the large number of GelCount users around the world who have repeatedly requested something along these lines over the years.”
Both the GelCount and the RBA are controlled from the same PC, with both platforms able to communicate and coordinate reliable, synchronized operation.
While the RBA loads and unloads samples, the GelCount acquires images, optionally processes them, and stores the data in a location specified by the end-user.
The solution is available to pre-order immediately.
Based in the UK, Oxford Optronix Ltd. has been designing, manufacturing and marketing world-class scientific instruments to a global audience for over 30 years.
Astech Projects Ltd., UK, part of the Schauenburg International group of companies, are a leading supplier of advanced robotics and automation solutions to a global customer base.
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