Automation and Robotics

MRI's engineers have a combined total of 75 years experience in robotics and automation. Much of our background is in automation for the sciences; our multidisciplinary automation engineering group is skilled with laboratory operations and the hardware involved.
We have installed complete robotic systems in food, pharmaceutical, and natural product laboratories. MRI engineers also work with automated combinatorial chemistry, and have designed and built major subsystems for the drug discovery arena. We have automated centrifugation,
liquid/liquid extraction, liquid interface detection, solvent evaporation, and a vast amount of other operations. Our automation engineers routinely use machine vision and other forms of intelligent detection for projects in health-related fields.

Applications

MRI has earned an international reputation with the design and development
of custom laboratory systems for chemical analysis.
Applications include:

Contact:

Robert V. Collins,
Senior Program Manager
(816) 753-7600,
ext. 1537

• Handling large sample quantities
• High-throughput screening
• High-speed analysis
• Drug discovery
• Natural product chemistry
• Pesticide screening
• Medical testing and diagnostics
• Immunoassay
• Laboratory instrumentation
• Molecular recognition and genetics
• Multisample extractions
• Image analysis and diagnosis
• QA/QC of processes

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Operations

We have developed fully automated computerized systems that perform all
the mechanical functions necessary to carry out the following operations in
a smooth and continuous fashion:

• Sample retrieving, labeling, stacking, and storing
• Capping and uncapping
• Solids cutting, blending, and dispersion
• Mixing
• Precision formulation
• Digesting
• Incubation
• Evaporation
• Washing and reconstitution
• Liquid/liquid and liquid/solid extraction
• Centrifugation
• Pattern recognition and decision making

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Expertise

MRI also specializes in:

• Micro-mechanical systems and components
• Process evaluation and development
• Product evaluation and development
• Product qualification

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