Colony Picking Systems
RapidPick? Colony Picking Systems are the only fully automated high-throughput microbial colony picking workcells. They deliver performance and precision unparalleled in the Life Science industry.
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RapidPick MP: 20 Pin Colony Picker
The RapidPick MP 20 pin colony picker software is the fastest, most accurate automated colony picking system in the world. The average inoculation rates of the MP are over 99%. The major competitors use batch picking so there is a delay in placing colonies into the destination plate. The delay may weaken E. coli or other bacterial colonies or cause death.
This microbial colony picker’s small footprint saves lab space and easily fits into anaerobic chambers and biosafety hoods. The typical colony picking rate is around 2,400 colonies per hour. Software Plug-Ins are available to communicate with all Hudson Robotics instruments and over 200 instruments from other manufactures such as LiCONiC incubators, media dispensers, robotic arms and more. The open physical layout allows for easy integration with other instruments and cleaning. Hudson Robotics can provide chambers to showcase your workcell.
High Throughput – picking rates of up to 2,500 picks per hour are possible with the RapidPick Multi Pin Colony Picker. The high throughput is based on the continuous, serial approach that is supported by the turntable architecture that allows simultaneous picking, inoculation, washing and sterilization of the tungsten pins.
Flexible automation – The small footprint allows placement in hoods, anaerobic chambers and into automated workcells and fully automated systems. Hudson’s PlateCrane can be added to load colony plates and inoculation plates, and automated inoculation plate creation, sealing, barcodes and incubation can also be added as throughput demands increase and as funding allows.
Efficient picking - The RapidPick MP supports inoculation rates up to 99% in optimized E.coli colonies due to its continuous serial picking and inoculating operations from the colony plate to the inoculation plate. Also, since the RapidPick MP uses robust tungsten pins instead of consumables, there are no ongoing consumable expenses.
RapidPick SP Single Pin Colony Picker
Hudson’s RapidPick SP is a single-pin version of Hudson’s widely-acclaimed RapidPick MP multi-pin colony-picker and re-arrayer. Like the RapidPick Complete and RapidPick Lite, the RapidPick SP has all the features needed by users in today’s molecular biology environment. The RapidPick SP has been designed to meet the needs of labs that need automated colony-picking and accurate data-handling, but whose throughput needs can be met by its medium-throughput productivity.
Its key features include:
Ease-of-use
Low cost
Compact, lab bench size
Expandable to robotic arm loading