Automated Laboratory Robotics with SciYbotic Labs

The Optimal Group is advancing automated laboratory analysis processes across the pharmaceutical sector by launching the SciYbotic Labs range. The new solutions make analysis faster with a higher level of consistency. This allows pharmaceutical companies to achieve greater efficiency, conformity, and profitability.

Content provided by Martin Gadsby, Chairman at Optimal Group

The SciYbotic Labs series was developed by the Optimal Group. It is part of SciY – a vendor-agnostic software brand that offers a wide range of scientific software solutions throughout the entire life sciences value chain.

The new range combines autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) with the synTQ software platform to create a self-contained workflow and analysis tool. The setup is regulatory compliant and capable of handling virtually all aspects of wet and dry laboratory testing without any human intervention.

Freeing up Time for Scientists

Automating analytical testing frees scientists from the routine and manual tasks involved in quality control. These are for example transporting tablets across a production facility, preparing samples, and loading analysis instruments. This allows scientists to instead spend their time on projects that make use of their training and expertise. This, therefore, reduces costs and unlocks value for the company. Additionally, the system automatically captures all data, ensuring complete data integrity.

Fully Customizable

SciYbotic Labs is fully customizable. Workflows can incorporate the robot(s) required for your specific analytical methods and space requirements. AMRs can transport samples around laboratories or between manufacturing and laboratory facilities. An initial Smart Laboratory deployment may include only static, bench-mounted robots for sample preparation, analysis tasks, and loading samples into local instruments. If mobility is required for sample collection or transport, such as loading remote instruments like HPLCs/UPLCs, an AMR may be invaluable.

All aspects of workflow management and execution, plus analysis and storage, are managed by synTQ, a leading PAT (Process Analytical Technology) knowledge management software platform capable of hosting chemometric and other predictive models. The software also generates intuitive dashboards and allows users to easily coordinate all testing and robotic activities.

Because synTQ stores all validated analytical workflows and methods, SciYbotic Labs can drive collaboration and standardization across a company’s global facilities. This allows a company to adopt the same analytical method in different laboratories with different layouts without needing repeated revalidation.

In a press release, Martin Gadsby, Chairman of Optimal Group, comments:

“By combining Optimal Industrial Automation’s expertise in complete automation solutions and Optimal Industrial Technologies’ PAT knowledge and synTQ software platform, the Optimal Group is perfectly placed to help enable accurate, reliable and more consistent laboratory testing. We believe the ease with which validated analytical methods can be reused by facilities around the globe with minimal revalidation to be a unique feature of our offering. This new solution will allow pharmaceutical companies worldwide to operate more consistently and efficiently, and we look forward to supporting customers in implementing their own automated setups.”