Bacteriological automation equipment

Your first step into microbiology lab automation

WASP^® is Copan’s renowned Walk Away Specimen Processor, an instrument that fully automates all aspects of liquid-based specimen processing: planting and streaking, Gram slide preparation, broth inoculation, and AST plates streaking.

WASP^® : A flawless assistant

• Automates demanding and repetitive manual tasks usually borne by lab staff and technologists.
• Automating repetitive operations ensures that each process is equal to the other for unparalleled standardisation and minimum human errors.
• WASP^® can interface with your LIS using standard unidirectional or bidirectional communication.
• WASP^® 360° scan technology reads specimen barcode labels at the bottom or at the side of the plate, reducing sample rejections to zero.
• Onboard labeling and LIS data integration allow full traceability of samples, plates, gram slides and inoculation tubes and their reconciliation tot the corresponding patient and analysis protocol.
• WASP^® universal decapper automatically opens and recaps sample containers of different size and type.
• WASP^®’s easy-to-use touch-screen monitors and intuitive software interface are designed to offer a user-friendly experience.

WASP^® Benefits

• Continuous loading: Avoid workflow disruptions through continuous and random loading. The system will communicate with LIS to discriminate the correct workup and complete it without any other interaction.
• End to end traceability: Enjoy full traceability of samples and downstream workups like plates, microscope slides, and broths thanks to LIS data integration, barcode readers, and onboard printer.
• Best practices standardisation: Each process equal to the other, each operation precisely defined. WASP^® sets a new frame of reference, to drive, manage, understand and optimize the lab workflows.
• Maximum flexibility: 40+ streaking patterns available, different and reusable inoculation loop sizes (1ul, 10ul, 30ul), dedicated loops for dual streaking. All features are LIS driven for automatic selection and change of streaking patterns and adequate loop.
• Safety first: HEPA filtration system together with anti-drop technical solutions are WASP^® key features to minimise contamination and cross-contamination risks.

WASPlab^® brings you into the world of Digital Bacteriology.

More than a platform for incubation, storage, digitisation, and recording of inoculated bacteriology plates, WASPlab^® is the nucleus of Copan Full Lab Automation.

WASPlab^® completes the “digitalisation of the plate”: each plate has now an ID, an upstream sample ID and type, patient information, a workup, a plate type, and obviously the image itself.

WASPlab^® benefits

• Once loaded in WASP^®, plates are streaked, moved, incubated, and analysed within the WASPLab^®. Negatives will be trashed, and positives stacked. You won’t touch a plate until is time for picking… and there is also a solution for that: take a look at Colibrí^™.
• Standardises optimal incubation conditions for better and faster results.
• Improves lab productivity and quality through the automated specimen organisation and easier recognition of bacteria. Enhance reading performance, allowing lab technicians to make the most accurate workup-decisions.
• Modular and scalable, adapts to every workflow.
• Robotic plate handlers arrange upside down plates in individual spots for homogeneous incubation conditions and constant traceability.
• WebApp designed to be the main access-point to WASPlab^®, ensuring an easy and user-friendly interaction.
• Telecentric camera acquires 48 Megapixel plates images at designated incubation times.
• An exceptional 9 mm depth of field make sure you’ll catch each tiny detail of the plate’s colonies, even those that develop vertically on the z-axis.
• Front and backlights, variable intensities and backscreens will give you over 1.000 lighting combinations to make your bacteria look great.
• The astounding resolution of 0,06 mm/pixel makes it possible for you to read, and for our software to analyse up to 0,1 mm wide colonies.
• Single and double incubators incubate plates fitting the needs of laboratories of all sizes.
• Wide range of controlled atmosphere settings for optimal bacterial growth.
• Workstation improves manual plate management, screening, reading, and picking.

Picking phase made standard, gold standard.

Colibri™ is Copan’s device designed to automatize colony picking, and preparation of targets for ID through MALDI-TOF technology, and bacterial suspensions for AST.

Colibri™ benefits

• Maximizes the focus on higher-profile tasks.
• Ensures picking accuracy thanks to synchronized vision systems.
• Integrates data with IVD analyzers for seamless traceability.
• Robotic pipettor handles both colony picking and liquids transfer.
• Containers table holds up to 16 target McFarland suspension tubes and AST tubes for the preparation of the microbial suspension.
• Nephelometer checks the turbidity of the microbial suspension to guarantee maximum precision and standardization.
• Printer and barcode system automatically labels tubes and purity plates for traceability and label reconciliation.
• Vision system controls the tip alignment and retrieves the colony coordinates from WASPLab^® , matching them for accurate picking.
• Loading and unloading carousel loads and unloads plates through seven configurable stackers.
• Friendly user interface allows the operator to supervise the instrument and ongoing processes. This enhances usability and information accessibility.
• Full traceability from the originally streaked plate to the final colony position, you can keep a full audit trail through WASPLab^® integrated LIS connection.

Pushing Antimicrobial Susceptibility, testing at full speed.

Radian^® is the complete solution to automate and interpret Disk Diffusion Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing.

Disk diffusion is the only Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing that provides a true image of bacterial growth, enabling microbiologists to detect culture purity, heterogeneous growth or colony morphology, as well as antibiotic interactions, to adapt antimicrobial treatment more rapidly. With Radian®, you can have your cake and eat it too. Automation gets rid of the disadvantages linked to manual Disk Diffusion while maintaining at the same time its original advantages.

Radian^® is composed of 2 modules:

• Radian^® In-Line Carousel: the WASPlab^®’s module that takes care of disk dispensation, ensuring optimal integration and throughput.
• Radian^® Expert System: leverages WASPlab^®’s superior Digital Imaging and EUCAST rules to deliver an exceptionally accurate SIR interpretation.

Advantages:

• Expresses the full potential of disk diffusion susceptibility testing.
• Connecting Colibrì™, WASP^®, WASPlab^®, and Radian^®: a new workflow perfectly integrated.
• Applies EUCAST standard and rapid rules from direct blood cultures automatically.
• Enables early antibiotic therapy for the final benefit of patients.
• Radian^® In-Line Carousel receives plates dedicated to AST disk dispensing on a parallel conveyor, without compromising the throughput of WASP^® and WASPlab^®.
• Radian^® In-Line Carousel allows high disk dispensing flexibility thanks to its 50 positions ATB wheel and its 1 to 8 disk deposit protocols, assuring high quality and standardisation.
• Through the easy and intuitive graphic interface, the operator can report fast and consult the data readily, and autonomously customise Radian^® Expert system.

A.I. core for full automation

PhenoMATRIX^® is AI-powered software that combines image analysis, demographics, and clinical data to automatically interpret cultures to segregate Negatives and organize Positives into custom folders, automatically tag the most suitable colonies for picking ready to be processed in Colibrí™, and finally automatically release the results.

• Breaks down the plate's key features thanks to its advanced digital image analysis algorithms.
• Accelerates your interpretation through a clear plate visualization.
• Custom expert rules for a tailored solution on your laboratory standards.
• Sorts your plates images according to your rules and LIS data.
• Custom filters groups plates in a folder-style interface, based on the laboratory rules.
• Results workup summarizes all the plate results: negativity, isolate, colony count, and workup.
• All the results sorted using the custom filters are sent to LIS with a single click.