First-Generation Colony Picking Instrument QuickPick300 Receives Promotion from Academicians of the National Academy of Engineering

In microbiology laboratories, single colony picking is a seemingly simple yet critically important basic operation. It is not only a key step in strain screening and drug susceptibility testing but also the starting point of the entire microbiological testing process. However, traditional manual colony picking relies on experience, suffers from low efficiency, and is prone to contamination, becoming a bottleneck restricting laboratory throughput and accuracy.

This situation has been fundamentally changed by the launch of our first-generation colony picking instrument QuickPick300. Even more exciting is that this intelligent equipment, embodying cutting-edge technology and meticulous craftsmanship, has recently received high recognition and formal promotion from academicians of the National Academy of Engineering, marking that its technological advancement and industry value have received authoritative endorsement.

From Manual to Intelligent, A Revolutionary Leap in Colony Picking Operation

In traditional colony picking operations, laboratory personnel need to visually identify target colonies in petri dishes and pick them using inoculation loops or needles. This process is not only time-consuming and labor-intensive but also faces many pain points:

Strong subjectivity: Different personnel have different criteria for judging colony morphology, affecting result consistency

Low efficiency: Faced with a large number of petri dishes, manual picking cannot meet high-throughput demands

Contamination risk: Frequent lid opening operations increase the probability of environmental bacterial contamination

Traceability difficulty: Manual recording makes full-process data traceability difficult to achieve

The emergence of the first-generation colony picking instrument QuickPick300 represents an intelligent reshaping of this traditional operating model.

Full-Process Automation, Seamless from Loading to Unloading

The core advantage of QuickPick300 lies in achieving a fully automated closed loop of colony picking operations:

Automatic loading and continuous feeding: Supports continuous loading of multiple petri dishes without manual attendance, significantly increasing processing throughput

Intelligent lid opening and closing: The robotic arm accurately performs petri dish lid opening and closing operations, minimizing contamination risks from manual intervention

Precise single colony picking: Guided by a high-precision motion system, the picking needle accurately penetrates the target colony and gently picks it without damaging the surrounding culture medium

Automatic unloading and sorting collection: After picking is completed, petri dishes are automatically closed and sorted for unloading, facilitating subsequent processing

This complete process completely liberates laboratory personnel from repetitive operations, allowing them to focus on result interpretation and experimental design.

AI Vision Empowerment, Making Colony Recognition Smarter

The core difficulty of colony picking operations is how to accurately identify and select target colonies from a dense population of colonies. QuickPick300 provides an intelligent solution:

High-resolution imaging system: Equipped with a tens-of-megapixel industrial camera, clearly capturing fine features such as colony morphology, color, and size

AI deep learning algorithm: Trained on tens of thousands of colony images, the AI model can accurately identify different types of target colonies

Customizable selection rules: Supports users to customize selection criteria based on experimental needs - such as specific size range, specific color, specific morphology, or excluding edge colonies, adjacent colonies, etc.

Real-time marking and confirmation: AI recognition results are displayed on screen in real time, allowing operators to quickly confirm or manually adjust, with human-machine collaboration ensuring zero errors

This AI vision system not only improves recognition accuracy and consistency but also gives the equipment the ability to continuously learn and optimize.

Clean and Residue-Free, Taking Responsibility for Subsequent Experiments

Microbiological experiments are extremely sensitive to cross-contamination, and the cleanliness of picking needles directly affects the reliability of subsequent experiments. QuickPick300 also strives for excellence in its cleaning system:

Support for multiple cleaning agent types: Different cleaning agents can be selected for targeted cleaning based on bacterial strain characteristics, ensuring thorough inactivation

High-temperature drying to remove residues: After cleaning, the picking needle undergoes high-temperature drying to completely remove residual moisture and organic matter, eliminating contamination risks

Traceable cleaning records: The time, temperature, and cleaning agent type for each cleaning can be recorded and archived, meeting GLP specification requirements

This multi-level cleaning mechanism ensures that each picking needle is in a clean state before picking the next colony, guaranteeing the reliability of experimental results at the source.

Academician Promotion, Authoritative Recognition of Technical Strength

Receiving recognition and promotion from academicians of the National Academy of Engineering is a high affirmation of the technological advancement and industry value of QuickPick300. In their evaluation, the academicians stated:

"The QuickPick300 colony picking instrument has achieved systematic breakthroughs in intelligent colony recognition, automated operational processes, and cross-contamination prevention, solving long-standing pain points in microbiology laboratories. Its promotion and application will strongly advance the automation process in China's microbiological testing field, improving testing efficiency and result reliability."

This authoritative endorsement not only affirms the years of intensive efforts by the R&D team but also injects strong credibility into the product's market promotion.

Broad Market Prospects, Expected to Become Industry Standard Equipment

With the rapid development of precision medicine, food safety, environmental monitoring and other fields, demand for microbiological testing continues to grow. Traditional manual colony picking methods can no longer meet the increasing throughput requirements and quality expectations.

QuickPick300, with its core advantages of full-process automation, AI intelligent recognition, and residue-free cleaning, precisely aligns with this market demand:

Clinical testing: Suitable for colony isolation from positive blood culture specimens and pre-treatment for drug susceptibility testing

Food safety: Can be used for isolation and enumeration of pathogenic bacteria in food samples

Pharmaceutical industry: Meets the standardized requirements of sterility testing and microbial limit testing

Research institutions: Provides high-throughput tools for strain screening, gene editing and other research

With its outstanding performance and authoritative academician endorsement, QuickPick300 is expected to become the industry standard instrument in the field of colony picking in the near future, leading a new wave of laboratory automation.

Conclusion

From the first generation onward, from functional realization to intelligent leadership, the iterative enhancement of QuickPick300 demonstrates our company's continuous deep cultivation in the field of microbiological automation. Receiving academician promotion is both an honor and a responsibility.

Going forward, we will continue to be driven by technological innovation and guided by customer needs, providing microbiology laboratories with smarter, more reliable, and more efficient automation solutions.

QuickPick300, intelligently selecting single colonies, defining new standards.