title: Use of robotics to dispense culture media.
abstract: Liquid and agar-containing media can be aseptically dispensed by a laboratory robot. Five errors occurred during the filling of 700 tubes with medium; four of these were due to imperfections of the screw-threaded caps of the culture tubes. The mean volume dispensed was 14.8 ml (standard deviation, 0.5; n = 50) when the system was set to deliver 15 ml.
authors.affiliation: Atlantic Research Laboratory, National Research Council of Canada, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H-3Z1, Canada.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Brewer
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Schwartzentruber
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Taylor