Medicine and Mechatronics

An interesting niche in the mechatronic world is the laboratory automation market. Applications in this arena can be syringe dispensing of tiny volumes of fluids, automatic dispensing and sampling of chemicals, DNA processing and many other applications. For the most part, the applications are Cartesian arrays of samples in small wells and single or multiple dispensing devices on a moving head. The number of samples being managed can be anything from 1 to 96. Read more