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Intelligent Liquid Handling Robot for PCR test

Team and Contact Details

Student Name School Degree Year Email
mujahid hussainCEMEUndergraduateFourthn/a@gmail
muzzamil mansoorCEMEUndergraduateFourth[email protected]
Iqra arshadRCMSPhDSecondn/a@gmail

Inter School Idea ? No
Do you need expertises from another area: No
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Idea Details

Idea Name: Intelligent Liquid Handling Robot for PCR test
Slogan: Autonomous Covid PCR Test
Supervisor Name: Dr Umer Asgher
Supervisor Designation: Assistant Professor
Supervisor School: CEME
Supervisor Department: Mechatronics
Contact number: 0311-5701404
Email ID:
Abstract:
    intelligent liquid handling robot to conduct Polymerase Chain Reaction(PCR) tests on data samples using machine learning based supervision/quality control.
What is the unmet need in society that your idea will fulfill ?
    Cheap lab based liquid handling robot for different bio-sample preparation at Biomedical Labs in NUST, RCMS. General purpose infectious disease PCR tests for rapid testing and quarantining measures to contain the spread of lethal contagion.
Who needs it ? How many would benefit ?
   Biomedical labs in Pakistan like at RCMS,NUST (under construction). Covid variant testing at Airports and important exit and entry points to the country.
How will the solution works
    A cnc based 5 degree of freedom robot with a variable-volume pippette attached to its end effector which is used for pippetting and dispensing fluids based on PCR sample preparing steps. We are developing customised G-codes firmware guided by an interactive GUI. The overall setup is supervised by a machine learning based camera setup which ensures the sample preparation steps are followed in correct order.
Who are your competitors ? How is your solution different
    We are utilizing open source components to manufacture the hardware and coding on atmega/stm32 based microcontrollers featuring open source IDE's. We plan on using grbl/marlin based firmware to send gcodes to the CNC robots joints and links. Our rivals have developed proprietory softwareand hardware
Status: new
Entry Date & Time: 2021-12-24 (1301)