LabLinx Microplate Stacker
LabLinx™ is Hudson’s unique microplate delivery system (microplate stacker) that allows you to store and deliver plates to any laboratory instrument, automatically. LabLinx is mechanically robust and can turn an ordinary liquid handler into a complete automated workcell. LabLinx microplate stackers are used in assay development, cell biology, bioassay validation, DNA quantification, PCR setup and cleanup and high-throughput drug screening.
Plates are stored in microplate stacks and moved among the user’s instruments on linkable track segments. “Intelligent” stopping mechanisms are located along the track segments at each instrument’s plate nest positions. There the lab instrument operates on the plate, then, when it‘s finished, LabLinx moves it on to the next lab instrument in the process.
LabLinx operates on many plates simultaneously, each at different stages of the user’s process, resulting in throughput rates that single-arm robot workcells can’t even approach.
LabLinx microplate stacker can service a single instrument, like Hudson’s Micro10x Reagent Dispenser (on the left) for unmatched speed in a simple filling application. Or, LabLinx can move microplates through a series of instruments and systems in a complex work cell, as shown in the video clip below.
