Clinical Automation
WASPLab®
WASPLab® brings you into the world of Digital Bacteriology.
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Automation is the key
Automated processes are the Lab’s turning point to reach new heights of flexibility, quality, process management and optimization, and of course prestige.
Copan will take you by hand, wipe out all uncertainties, and guide you through this breakthrough change!
The core of 4.0 microbiology lab
In the age of digitalization and industry 4.0, microbiology labs are also gearing up for the future. WASPLab® empowers the integration between robotics and full-digitalization, of a flexible and modular working structure.
Now you can imagine a fully automatic processing solution, tailored to your lab practices, samples, and workflows!
Digitization basics
Concept of “digital” plate
Before and during incubation WASPLab® takes tremendously accurate digital images thanks to its top-notch imaging system: 48mpx trilinear sensor, telecentric optics, and 9mm depth of field to name a few features.
WASPLab® completes the “digitalization of the plate”: each plate has now an ID, an upstream sample ID and type, patient information, a workup, a plate type, and obviously the image itself.
All this information is accessible in one place: your WASPLab® workstation.
WASPLab® is before all a first-rate bacteriology automation
Efficiency, scalability, cost-saving, TAT reduction, resource optimization: the transition to an automated lab is a radical step that will change your whole perspective on the future of your lab.
There is no top-grade laboratory without a plan for automatization
Scalability and Modularity
We call this sizing and it is the process of tailoring the WASPLab® to your needs: protocols, LIS connections, throughput, sample types, and a lot more will be taken into consideration.
Stop touching plates
Once loaded in WASP®, plates are streaked, moved, incubated, and analyzed within the WASPLab®. Negatives will be trashed, and positives stacked. You won’t touch a plate until is time for picking… and there is also a solution for that: take a look at Colibrí™.
Best practices standardisation
Inheriting the WASP® approach, WASPLab® automatizes your best practices making them endlessly repeatable, making it way easier to face the true challenging cases that fall outside routine.
Everything at hand
WASPLab® Webapp will be your tool of choice during your screening and reading phases. All your digital plates in one spot, ready to be examined, and sent to the next step!
The tech that makes everything possible
As the pioneer of digital microbiology, WASPLab® offers a mix of great technologies, a result of decennial experience and continuous development.
This complete automation and imaging package, including telecentric optic, and the multi-robot automation, is the trump card available through WASPLab® image analysis algorithms, PhenoMATRIX® and Radian®.
Recording
9mm Depth of field
An exceptional 9mm Depth of Field make sure you’ll catch each tiny detail of the plate’s colonies, even those that develop vertically on the z-axis.
Lighting
More than 1000 lighting combinations
Front and backlights, variable intensities and backscreens will give you over 1000 lighting combinations to make your bacteria look great.
Precision
Less than 0,1mm colony size detection
The astounding resolution of 0,06mm/pixel makes it possible for you to read, and for our software to analyze up to 0,1 mm wide colonies.
Webapp Interface
Outstanding working experience
One screen to leaf through your whole plate library. No bustle with plate piles, no back and forth with samples and plates around the lab.
From the WASPLab® Webapp, you’ll be able to screen, read, send to trash, and mark for further steps your plates, all of these spiced by dozens of features to make your work flexible and easy.
The WASPLab® Ecosystem
Build up your Full Lab Automation dream! Module by module you can scale up quality, productivity, and medical value.
Specimen Processor
WASP®
Automatic Picking
Colibrí™
Automated and Expert AST
Radian®
AI Powered Interpretation
PhenoMATRIX
Data Management
MicroHub®
Automatic Sample Sorting
WASP-FLO™
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Related Videos
Video
WASPLab® Ecosystem
WASPLab® is our preanalytical automation ecosystem that begins at the inoculation phase and ends at reading, interpreting, and picking activities. Discover in this video all its modules!
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UZ Leuven Laboratory Interview about WASPLab® Ecosystem
In Leuven, Belgium, the UZ Laboratory installed Copan’s WASPLab® Ecosystem in 2018 to handle thousands of samples every day, with improved standardization and shortened time to results.
Top Scientific Studies
Scientific Study
Rapid identification by MALDI-TOF/MS and antimicrobial disk diffusion susceptibility testing for positive blood cultures after a short incubation on the WASPLab®
Abdessalam Cherkaoui & Gesuele Renzi & Nouria Azam & Didier Schorderet & Nicolas Vuilleumier
& Jacques Schrenzel
Scientific Study
Copan WASPLab® automation significantly reduces incubation times and allows earlier culture readings
A. Cherkaoui, G. Renzi, N. Vuilleumier, J. Schrenzel
Scientific Study
The patient is in the centre: integrated management of results with WASPLab® System
Laura Bartolini, Guendalina Vaggelli, Patrizia Pecile, Gian Maria Rossolini
Scientific Study
Medical value of WASPLab® automation solution in a 24/7 clinical microbiology laboratory: some preliminary results
Olivier DAUWALDER, HCL team, Jean Marc de MARTINI, Jean Francois SAUZON,
Monique DREVARD, bMx team, Gérard LINA, Frédéric LAURENT & Francois VANDENESCH
Scientific Study
Benefits Derived from Full Laboratory Automation in Microbiology: a Tale of Four Laboratories
Karissa Culbreath, Heather Piwonka, John Korver, Mir Noorbakhsh
In order to grant the reliability of the diagnostic results to which the systems described in this brochure contribute and allow the safe and correct functioning of the instruments themselves, spare parts, and technical support must be provided by Copan (or its authorized distributors). Any third party’s containers, culture plates and consumables to be used on the instruments must be approved in writing by Copan. Limitations may apply: please refer to Copan’s official technical documentation.
Always consult product inserts and instructions for use for the appropriate use of the products. Product clearance and availability restrictions may apply in some Countries.Please consult Copan for the availability of these products in your Country.
