Organic robotic

Will Olin turn you into an organization robot ... 

Source Olin Corporation, Will Olin turn you into an organization robot Journal of College Placement 30, no. 1 (October/November 1969) 83. 

Organic chemistry by robot means no spilled flasks ... 

A comprehensive listing of all the vendors that offer HTS instrumentation and platforms is beyond the scope of this chapter, but most vendors maintain informative websites and there are three professional organizations that disseminate useful information about automation platforms for HTS on the world wide web, the Society for Biomolecular Sciences (www.sbsonline.com), the Association for Laboratory Automation (www.labautomation.org), and the Laboratory Robotics Interest Group (www.lab-robotics.org). The latter maintains an online forum where vendors and experienced users often provide immediate and useful guidance. 

The Rosetta mission with its planned landing on a comet, with analysis of cometary material (see Sect. 3.2), should provide more information on the occurrence of chiral molecular species in the cosmos (Adam, 2002). The GC-MS apparatus installed in the robotic lander RoLand is also able to separate and analyse chiral organic molecules (Thiemann and Meierhenrich, 2001). 

The simplest technique is the use of the 96-well collection plate format (analogous to the format used in SPE) in conjunction with a liquid handling robotic system it follows the same principle as bulk scale LLE. However, immobilization of the aqueous plasma sample on an inert solid support medium packed in a cartridge or in the individual wells of a 96-well plate and percolating a water-immiscible organic solvent to extract the analyte from this medium evoked significant enthusiasm from the pharmaceutical industry. 

Robotic systems in a small analytical laboratory have the greatest application in the intermediate sample manipulation steps. The removal of excess solvent with the Zymark evaporator [492], for example, can be closely controlled, fully automated, and operate in parallel (up to six samples per instrument). This technique has considerable advantages over rotary evaporation, which is prone to loose volatile organic compounds (e.g., chlorobenzenes) under vacuum and rapid vaporization. Automated repetitive manipulations are well served by a robotic system [492]. 

We have taken samples of the surface of the Moon, by man, and the surface of Mars, by robot, and searched these samples for signs of life nothing found. Contrast this scenario with one in which some extraterrestrial civilization sampled the surface of the Earth for signs of life. It is difficult to imagine that they could find samples that did not contain signs of life indeed did not contain an abundance of living organisms. The Earth teems with life. 

Shell has found many cost-effective solutions using robots. The future requirements and trends for their systems are as follows (these, of course, apply to many organizations) ... 

The basic system includes the controller with user memory, robot, a general-purpose hand, and the capacity for six laboratory stations. These approaches will find further use as they are applied to varying sample types. Further details of robotic systems are discussed in Chapter 6. The continuing series of automation conferences organized by the Zymark Corporation provide a ready access to the latest advances in robotic technology. 

The system in its current configuration is shown in Fig. 6.9. Since 1988, the system has been moved from a bench top to a custom vented enclosure to minimize exposure to organic fumes. The detectors, solvents and other necessary support devices are located below the robot work surface. Functionally, the robot still performs almost the same procedure as the initial system (dilution of samples), but there are a number of key differences. 

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