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.