of sample transport cut to minutes
Hospital service robots that carry blood samples between wards and the laboratory cut transport times from hours to minutes.
Tera lab robots carry plates, tubes and cell bags between your instruments, check every label before they move it, and record every hand-off. Your scientists come back to finished runs and a clean record, not a night of manual handling.
01Live demo: research lab
Six assay plates are queued at 22:00. Watch the robot move them through incubator, centrifuge and liquid handler, catch a label that does not match, and hand your team a finished run and a full record at 07:00. Click any step, drag the view to look around, or let it play.
| Time | Sample | Action | From | To | Check |
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02Live demo: cell therapy line
Cell therapies are made one patient at a time, mostly by hand, by gowned staff in clean rooms. Each open step is a contamination risk and each hand-off is a chance to swap identities. Follow four patient batches through a closed robotic line, from cells received to release.
03Your numbers
Move the sliders to match your lab. The estimate updates as you go and uses only your numbers and the assumption you set.
04The problem
Labs buy fast instruments and then wait for people to move samples between them, check labels by eye and write it all down. That work is slow, it stops at night, and every person in a clean room adds contamination risk.
Hospital service robots that carry blood samples between wards and the laboratory cut transport times from hours to minutes.
People mix up look-alike labels, drop trays and shed particles. A clinical laboratory study reported error reductions of more than 70% after automation.
Source: Biosero and OMRON white paper
Traditional automation is built around large machines that perform the same task over and over. A mobile robot can be given new work when your methods change.
Source: Labcompare
In its first weeks, an autonomous delivery robot cut mean turnaround from about 123 to 107 minutes in a hospital laboratory in Rome.
Figures come from the published sources linked under each card. They are industry results, not Tera measurements.
05The solution
Tera Biosystems turns separate instruments into one workflow that runs day and night. People decide what to run and approve the exceptions. The robot does the carrying, the waiting and the checking.
A mobile base with a jointed arm and cameras, sized for lab corridors and benches.
Tera software schedules jobs across incubators, centrifuges, liquid handlers and bioreactors.
Each move is logged with the sample, place, time and check result, so the record writes itself.
| Task | Today | With Tera |
|---|---|---|
| Moving plates between instruments | A person carries each plate and waits by the instrument. | The robot carries it and starts the next instrument. |
| Overnight and weekend runs | Someone stays late, or the run waits until morning. | The run continues from a queue set before the team leaves. |
| Label and identity checks | Read by eye, often under time pressure. | Scanned and matched to your records at every hand-off. |
| Clean-room entries | Every entry needs gowning and adds particles. | Routine transfers happen with no person in the room. |
| Batch and run records | Written up by hand after the work is done. | Built automatically as each step happens. QA reviews the exceptions. |
06How it works
Your instruments stay where they are. The robot connects them, the orchestrator decides what happens next, and every step lands in the systems you already use.
Unchanged on the bench, opened and loaded by the robot.
Moves, grips and checks. Navigation, arm control and vision run on board.
Schedules the work, handles exceptions and asks a person when it should.
Records flow to the tools your team already reviews. Connections are agreed in each pilot.
Queue set by scientistRobot picks and checksInstrument runsRecord writtenException? Person approvesResult in your LIMS
07Pilot program
We are lining up pilot partners now. A pilot proves the value on your own samples before you commit to more.
08Questions
This is a product preview. We are working with pilot partners first. The two demos on this page run on simulated data so you can see exactly how a night run and a patient batch would be handled.
No. It takes over the carrying, the waiting by instruments and the label checks. Your team decides what runs, approves exceptions and spends its time on the science.
It is built for standard plates, tube racks and cell bags, and for instruments that load from the front. We check each of your instruments during the lab walk-through before a pilot starts.
The robot is designed for clean areas, with a sealed, wipe-down shell. What is certified for GMP use depends on the final build and your site. We will state exactly what is validated before any GMP work starts.
You do. Every record is created for your lab and exports to your own lab and quality systems.
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Book a free discovery call. We look at the workflow that keeps your team late, the instruments you already have and the records you need, then show you what a pilot would look like. We reply within one business day.