RapidPick Complete Colony Picker, Hudson Robotics, Inc. (CAT#: AM-AUTO-0424-LY)

The RapidPick Complete Colony Picker is manufactured by Hudson Robotics, Inc. Hadson's RapidPick ™ Colony Collection System is the only fully automated high-throughput colony collection work cell. They provide unmatched performance and precision in the life sciences industry to enhance bacterial culture. In addition to allowing researchers to automatically select and grow cells growing on colony plates, RapidPick software also keeps records and images of each specific colony as well as the plate / wells inoculated. It provides users with the essential, uninterrupted data path from the original colony to the final result to track down specific expressed proteins.

Speed:>2400 colonies/hr
Calibration: Each tip is calibrated in a process that takes 5 minutes. This is a key advantage over systems that rely on calibration from 1 pin; any deviation in the calibration pin will cause other systems to miss colonies.
Image Processing: Only 1 image is used to identify all of the colonies on a plate. As you know, other pickers use multiple images that get reconstructed, and reconstructed images require an overlap parameter that throws away about 10% of your colonies.
Selection Efficiency: It is an industry standard that only ~72% of all human pickable colonies can be selected and picked by our competitors. The RapidPick™ collects ~90%.
Tip Cleaning: Tips are cleaned with water from a large carboy followed by sterilization in a 300°C oven. This means no EtOH bath to evaporate causing contamination
Automated Media Filling: Eliminates the need to dispense media at a separate workstation. The Micro10x's features make it a perfect match for this application.