It is hard to imagine life without antibiotics today. Nevertheless, more and more antibiotics are losing their effectiveness against new or resistant bacterial infections. Furthermore, no new class of antibiotics has been brought to market in recent decades. The antibiotic crisis represents one of the greatest medical challenges of our time.
The JenXplor modular robotics platform at the Leibniz-HKI specializes in researching new antibiotics. JenXplor conducts fully automated experiments to discover new active compounds. A robotic arm handles the test plates and guides them to the appropriate devices, such as pipetting robots, incubators, or automated microscopes. The repetitive steps are performed precisely and consistently, allowing experiments to be conducted more quickly and accurately. Visit JenXplor to learn more about the experiments being conducted to search for new antibiotics and to see the robot in action!
