HiTMan is a versatile, state-of-the-art microbe-handling robot tailor-made for cutting-edge microbial research. The set-up allows to carry out a wide range of protocols in an automated way, starting from the cultivation step to ultimately phenotypic characterization, such as antibiotic resistance, fluorescence measurements and many more. It drastically improves experimental throughput, allowing to generate and test thousands of new variants. This enables testing scientific ideas much quicker, further promoting strategic basic research and stimulating valorization through creation and discovery of novel antibiotics, probiotics or superior industrial microbes.

The core of this set-up is a liquid handling robot which has access to for instance:

Plate imaging station

Different incubators with a wide temperature range

Multimode microplate reader for spectrophotometric, fluorescence and luminescence measurements