3Dbot - Development of an high-troughput, bench-top-robotic-system for the fully automated handling of biological samples using a photogrammetric 3D-imaging method and real-time image analysis

Imaging of objects and the automated dynamic analysis - the so called Computer Vision - is omnipresent in our daily life. In the field of biotechnology these powerful photogrammetric systems are not applied so far as the technological basis ist missing.
Aim of the cooperation project is - in line with the innovation strategy of the Free State of Saxony - to set this technological basis and to develop a demonstration system for a compact, high-troughput enabling, bench-top system for automated creation of 3D-models of bacterial colonies, biological cell- und tissue samples and additional biological samples and therefore for the first time the software-based, fully automated analysis to gain characteristic parameters (e. g. type, size, shape, biomass, cell volume or growth rate) as well as to use this data and the structural models to control process runs in real time.
The newly developed platform enables for the handling and manipulation of biological samples and therefore the automation of verfications procedures e. g. in the field of drinking water analysis but also a substantial increase in throughput in screening for active agents e. g. in cancer therapy as the productive time can be maximized while containing the cost.