Hi guys!
-- Thanks for putting OpenTrons out there -- but I have to agree that we are not the right automation solution for PhillyJ's lab.
Current robots are like big mainframe machines. They cost a ton, break a ton, but do a ton of work for you. Plus, they are fully certified and tested, clinical studies on them, etc. As a UX person, I would say that none of them have good interfaces or would qualify as easy to work with in any way -- but thats why people hire lab techs whose whole job is to run the machines. And Hamilton, Tecan, etc are really good at what they do, once you get them up and running.
Our focus is on being a personal lab automation platform. So instead of a workflow where researchers pass their experiments off like punch cards to a mainframe machine, individuals us an OT.One to save themselves a bunch of time and automate their own pipetting work. We give you much more flexibility as an innovator, and let you share your protocols seamlessly with peers across the world. Our focus is on rapid iteration, hardware flexibility, experiment reproducibility, protocol abstraction, avoiding human error, peer-to-peer collaboration, open-source community. We are not focused (right now) on super high-throughput or certifications.
We dont have a separate category on our Kickstarter for a "support contract" because we plan on engaging very closely with all of our Kickstarter backers. Our early-adopters will be the backbone of our user community going forward, and I plan on establishing a personal relationship with all our new OT.One users in 2015 -- and I honestly cant wait to work with them!
After we go to live retail sales in Spring 2015 we will have performance and durability statistics as well formal support contracts available.
phillyj, have you looked at Transcriptic? Not sure if they can do Sanger sequencing, but I am curious what a lab like your would think about outsourcing a piece of your workflow to "the cloud," as opposed to buying, de-bugging, and operating robots yourselves.
Anyways, always happy to talk about this stuff!
Thanks,
Will
On Thursday, November 13, 2014 11:35:22 AM UTC-8, Cathal Garvey wrote:
On Thursday, November 13, 2014 11:35:22 AM UTC-8, Cathal Garvey wrote:
CC'd Will, but I think he's on the list already.
Will; Any room for a special Kickstarter pledge that gets commercial
support contracts; assistance setting up and maintaining a process or
workflow? :)
On 13/11/14 19:06, Otto Heringer wrote:
> Is true that the OpenTrons liquid handler was build on a DIY approach,
> but it may be useful like any "comercial" liquid handler and with a
> smaller price.
> Also there is the community advantage to help you program and improve
> your protocol. I bet that OpenTrons guys might even help you do this -
> since it is a interesting application of their product.
>
> You should try speak with them.
>
> 2014-11-13 16:50 GMT-02:00 Nathan McCorkle <nmz...@gmail.com
> <mailto:nmz...@gmail.com>>:
>
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 9:58 AM, Jeswin <phill...@gmail.com
> <mailto:phill...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Otto Heringer <ottowh...@gmail.com <mailto:ottowh...@gmail.com >>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> If you have the time and resources, you could try set up the automation
> >> using the OpenTrons machine:
> >>
> >>https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/932664050/opentrons- open-source-rapid-prototyping- for-biolog
> >>
> >>
> > Yea, about that. This isn't really a DIY question b/c this is for a
>
> If you aren't paying someone else to do it, isn't it DIY?
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