K8 Saves Valuable Scientist Time
The K8 automated colony picking system helped a global pharmaceutical R&D team reduce manual bottlenecks, freeing up valuable scientist time for more complex research tasks.
In pharmaceutical R&D, scientist time is one of the most valuable resources in the laboratory. Yet in many high throughput drug discovery and immunology research workflows, colony picking remains a manual bottleneck.
Identifying, imaging and extracting individual colonies from Petri dishes and bioassay trays requires significant operator time. When colonies need to be transferred from multiple source tray locations into 96- or 384-well microplates, the process becomes labour-intensive, variability-prone and difficult to scale.
The K8 automated colony picking system from Kbiosystems removes this bottleneck. The system delivers picking accuracy of more than 98.5%, supported by USB3 camera imaging and full positional feedback. It also handles a wide range of source and destination formats.
For one global pharmaceutical R&D team, the requirement went beyond standard automation. Regional picking zones and control clone positions specific to the team’s plate layout needed to be integrated before the system arrived. Kbiosystems delivered that configuration before installation, ensuring the K8 was aligned with the laboratory’s workflow from day one.
“It has freed up significant scientist time for more complex tasks.”
— Global pharmaceutical company
By automating manual colony picking, laboratories can release valuable scientist time, improve reproducibility and scale throughput more effectively.
Learn more about the K8 automated colony picking system.
