OpenWorkstation: A modular open-source technology for automated in vitro workflows

Open source anaerobic and temperature-controlled in vitro model enabling real-time release studies with live bacteria

“…3D printing and laser cutting have also been used to fabricate in vitro models, for example a fully replicable retention model to study the intestinal adhesion of microdevices for oral drug delivery [15] . Additionally, 3D printing has been applied to develop a workstation for automated in vitro workflows [16] . Here, an impressive level of precision was achieved for pipetting and dilution series, which was confirmed by R 2 values close to 1 (0.9992).…”

Mostly 3D printed chemical synthesis robot

“…Application covers basic laboratory procedures like liquid manipulation [1] , microextraction [2] , auto sampling [3] , [4] and weighing [5] just to cite some. Also, more complex frameworks including modular workstations are present [6] , [7] , [8] . High-level research used robots to perform artificial evolutions and modelling protocells in vitro [9] , [10] .…”

Open-hardware wireless controller and 3D-printed pumps for efficient liquid manipulation

“…Other laboratories have already developed with success open-source peristaltic pumps [19,20] and syringe pumps [21][22][23][24][25] specifically designed to perform their experiments, as well as designed open-source pipettes [26][27][28]. Advanced devices also implement these technologies in order to conduct autonomous experiments [29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44].…”