K8 Automated colony picking system

The ideal medium throughput solution for reliable, consistent identification and extraction for sample recovery

Offering complete versatility, the K8 series will work with a wide range of plates for both source and destination, such as microplates (96, 384 shallow and deep well formats), Petri dishes (from 4 to 15cms), Omni style trays, multiwall growth plates and bio assay trays

An increase in operational capacity is offered with the option to fit one or two destination plate automation lanes. These allow the processing of up to 220 standard destination plates and up to 60 deep well blocks. Second stage automation allows the automatic handling of 8 source tray locations

üPicking accuracy in excess of 98.5%.
üFull positional feedback
üImaging carried out via USB3 camera system

The system is available in three configurations:

üK8 (picker only)   1078mm x 1665mm (HxW)
üK8 XT (automated destination plates)   1078mm x 2276mm (HxW)
üK8 XL (source trays and destination plates)   1078mm x 2990mm (HxW)