A Robot for Quickly Picking Clone Colony

The key of microbial breeding is how to quickly select the target colony from the mutant library. High-throughput clonal colony selection technology is to solve this problem. The selection of clonal colonies is a key link in biotechnology, and it is also a very heavy workload. The traditional picking method is manual, which has low efficiency and low precision. Compared with manual picking, the automatic screening and picking of colonies by robots can greatly improve the production efficiency and picking accuracy. In this paper, a robot is designed, which can quickly pick out cloned colonies. The robot can carry out picking, inoculation, cleaning, sterilization and drying at the same time. It uses servo motor and pneumatic drive mode, combined with machine vision to coordinate the colony positioning and the multi-axis motion control card controls the cooperative work of all parts of the robot, and equipped with a variety of sensors to assist the operation of the robot.