Industrial Style Laboratory Automation

For many who work in biomedical laboratories, automation is known for years and utilized in many different ways and applications. Laboratory automation is currently changing and evolving from automated pipettes into highly flexible and fast equipment.
A robot system consists at least of: a robot arm, motors, feedback devices, amplifiers, a robot controller and an end-effector, e.g. a gripper (see fig.1). The motors with their feedback devices together withthe amplifiers and the robot controller decide about the performance and the reliability of a robot system. In industrial manufacturing robots use servomotors, compared to stepper motors, which move most laboratory robots.