Use of robotics to dispense culture media.
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.
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Atlantic Research Laboratory, National Research Council of Canada, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H-3Z1, Canada.
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