Emerald Cloud Lab
🇺🇸 US Serves global
US remote-controlled cloud laboratory.
- Service
- Public quote page
- 3 jobs
- Oct 25, 2026
Healthcare & Wellness
Laboratory automation
Liquid handlers and robotic labs; cloud labs that run experiments for you.
People ask for this as: “lab automation”, “cloud lab”, “liquid handling robot”
How it works
Robots used
- Lab Robot
Ways to buy it
- Purchase Buy the robot (plus software and service plans, usually).
- Service — you pay for the outcome (one inspection, one show, X acres).
Bot or Not?
A robot makes sense when…
- The job is high, dangerous, or hard to reach
- It is huge or repetitive (acres, nights, square metres)
- You need data you will compare over time
- You need eyes on it right now
Hire a human when…
- It is small, low and one-off
- It needs hands, judgement or a repair
- Weather, permits or timing make robots awkward
- Nobody has defined the job yet
Here's the catch for this job
- Ask for clinical evidence and peer-reviewed outcomes.
- Leases and per-procedure pricing are common for big systems.
Rules of thumb, not a sales pitch. Take the Ladder Test →
What it costs
Published ranges, each with a receipt. Not quotes: your price depends on scope, location and date. older price = 18+ months.
The receipt as a table
| What | Range | Unit | Region | Receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buy: Opentrons Flex liquid handler with pipettes (list price) | $38,125 | / unit | US | shop.opentrons.com as of Oct 2026 |
Prices published by providers
| What | Range | Unit | Region | Receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opentrons Flex liquid-handling robot with two 1-50 uL pipettes (installation required) via Opentrons | $38,125 | / unit | — | shop.opentrons.com as of Oct 2026 |
Price history
Only one observation per series so far: we started recording every price on 2026-10-25 and re-check every source on a schedule. A trend appears when a re-checked source shows a different price (we never overwrite old observations).
| Series | Latest | Observations | Observed | Trend | Receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buy: Opentrons Flex liquid handler with pipettes (list price) | $38,125 / unit | 1 | Oct 25, 2026 ✓ re-checked Oct 25, 2026 | — | shop.opentrons.com |
| Opentrons Flex liquid-handling robot with two 1-50 uL pipettes (installation required) via Opentrons | $38,125 / unit | 1 | Oct 25, 2026 ✓ re-checked Oct 25, 2026 | — | shop.opentrons.com |
Sources re-checked: 2 of 2 series confirmed on the live source (last check Oct 25, 2026). Log: price_rechecks.jsonl
Append-only: we never overwrite a recorded price. JSON: /api/prices/history?use_case=lab-automation
What to specify and ask
Put these in your request and you'll get a real price instead of "it depends":
- Assays and samples per day
- LIMS and existing liquid handlers
- Facility type
- Number of beds/rooms or patients
- Clinical use case
- Integration with EHR/IT
- Service and training needs
- Financing model
Rules and regulation
Medical robots are regulated devices (FDA 510(k)/PMA in US, CE/MDR in EU, PMDA in Japan). Disinfection claims (UV) may need EPA/agency registration.
General information, not legal advice. Rules change; ask the operator which permits they hold and verify them.
Providers who do this
Opentrons
🇺🇸 US Serves global
US maker of affordable liquid handling robots.
- Purchase
- 1 sourced price
- Public quote page
- 1 job
- Oct 25, 2026
Hamilton Company
🇺🇸 US Serves global
US lab automation company.
- Purchase
- Public quote page
- 1 job
- Oct 25, 2026
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