Tools for laboratory workflows
We build tools and automation systems for life science laboratories — from robotic gripping and liquid handling to data-driven lab workflows and integration.
Tools. Systems. Data. Workflows.
We design tools for life science automation — including LabHand and the FullRange Pipette — as well as project-based automation engineering and complete automated systems for biological laboratories.
Design and implementation work in real laboratory environments.
Design and implementation of a fully automated transfection workflow in 384-well format under sterile conditions.
Compound management environment combining laboratory automation with data and tracking infrastructure.
Analysis and restructuring of existing laboratory workflows to enable automation.
Integrated cell culture automation setup combining incubator, cold storage, and sterile workflow environments.
Robotic handling for laboratory workflows
LabHand is a robotic gripper for laboratory environments — handling plates, lids, and containers in automated workflows.
It mounts via a 62 mm ISO flange and is compatible with a wide range of collaborative and industrial robots, including Universal Robots UR3e, UR5e, and UR10e, and the ABB GoFa 1500.
Two control modes are supported: I/O-based operation for robots without serial control, and RS485 for fully programmable grip parameters. Control is also available over SSH, enabling direct integration into Python-based automation environments.
The gripper handles labware in both landscape and portrait orientation. Its slim finger profile enables reliable gripping in constrained situations — including lid handling and stacked plate access.
Labhand4 - One platform.
Reconfigurable for your workflow.
LabHand4 is a lab gripper built for automated laboratory environments. Its tool-based architecture allows the system to be reconfigured between process steps.
Designed for environments where one robotic cell must support evolving tasks without requiring a complete system redesign.
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Multi-volume liquid handling in a single instrument
The FullRange Pipette is designed to cover the full pipetting volume range within a single instrument — eliminating the need to switch between pipettors across process steps.
Currently in development. If your process requires handling a wide range of volumes on a single platform, we'd like to hear about your requirements.
Complete automation — deployed as a service
For biological labs that need reliable automation without committing to permanent infrastructure — we provide complete robotic systems as a rental service, deployed directly into your laboratory.
At the core is a robotic arm for microtiter plate handling — moving, processing, and coordinating plates across the workflow. Standard tools are integrated around it: liquid handling, plate labeling, delidding, shaking, storage access, and sample transfer.
Where your workflow requires specialty devices — readers, dispensers, or analytical instruments — we integrate those too. Contact us to discuss what is feasible.
No capital investment, no lengthy procurement — operational from day one.
From process analysis to working laboratory systems
We design and implement laboratory systems — from process analysis through to fully operational setups. This covers fully automated workflows as well as hybrid environments where automation and scientific IT augment existing manual processes.
Our work typically begins where off-the-shelf solutions reach their limits: compound management, liquid handling across multiple steps, heterogeneous device integration, and data infrastructure.
We build implementations tailored to actual process requirements — combining robotics, laboratory instruments, and scientific IT into coherent, working environments rather than applying predefined configurations.
Our work includes:
Laboratory workflows are moving beyond step-by-step automation toward systems that can adapt and continue without manual intervention. 8-BOT contributes to this direction through tight integration of robotics, instruments, and data — building systems that handle process variation rather than requiring it to be eliminated upfront.
Where standard instruments do not fit the process, we develop project-specific hardware. Past work includes incubator and cold storage units designed to meet particular workflow, footprint, and integration requirements that commercial products could not satisfy.
If you are working on a complex laboratory workflow challenge, we can help develop and implement a functional workflow.
Some developments shown are part of ongoing work and are not yet available as off-the-shelf products.