RoboRocker – Fully Programmable Speeds, Holds and Angles

The RoboRockerâ„¢: Best way to mimic in vivo flow for 3D cultures

Ideal for Incubators, 3D Cultures, and Specialized Applications

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The RoboRocker is ideal for microfluidic 3D cell and organoid culturing. Program the speed, tilt angles and position hold times. This allows gravity driven perfusion at the desired flow rate and duration in several culture plates simultaneously. Use the RoboRocker to generate shear flow, create pulsed flow as if from a beating heart, or even continuous, slow flow to gently carry nutrients to the cells and remove waste products.  

The RoboRocker is also the best rocker for applications requiring ultra slow and gentle rocking, such as immunostaining of whole tissues or organoids or gently flowing culture medium across adherent cell cultures to prevent nutrient depletion zones and to remove waste products from the local environments. The RoboRocker offers very gentle, slow rocking, where each rocking cycle could take minutes (or even hours if so desired). You can control the tilt angle, speed, and can even hold position, all from the control panel. This allows maximum interaction time between the tissues and the staining reagents or culture medium with the cells. The gentle flow prevents the build up of depletion zones and removes waste products. 

The RoboRocker tilts to the programmed angle, optionally holds position for a desired time (from seconds to hours), then moves to the reverse tilt angle or another desired tilt angle. The RoboRocker is ideal for maintaining a constant flow rate of media/fluids for microfluidic platforms in cell culture incubators. It is versatile for other applications as well.

Unique Functionality

Extremely versatile!

The RoboRocker can travel very fast, or very very slowly. It can travel to a steep angle in one direction, but just a shallow angle in another. It can also stop at other angles along the way. It can hold it’s position at any of those angles if desired – for just one second, or many hours. The RoboRocker is more than just a rocker – it’s a liquid flow controller!

Extensive Programmability

Set any combination of speeds, angles, and pause times.

The RoboRocker has programmable speed, tilt angle and position hold times. Just use the touch screen to set the parameters. Each savable RoboRocker program can target to up to 4 different angles, hold position time at each angle (from 0 seconds to 90 minutes), and travel speed to the next tilt angle. The travel rate can be quick (30° / sec. = about 60 RPM on your old rocker) or extremely slow (less than 1 rock / week). The RoboRocker travel speed is so precise that RPM isn’t the right unit anymore! Typical applications include microfluidic organoid and 3D cell culture, in which the culture medium flows by gravity from one reservoir, through the cell culture, to a collection reservoir, with the tilt angle reversing before the supply reservoir is empty. Or, you may want to allow neighboring wells of different cell types to send extracellular signals at defined times. Up to 6 custom programs can be stored!

Super User Friendly

Designed for CO2 incubators, touch screen programming, slots for culture plates.

The RoboRocker can be used in CO2 incubators, which is ideal for many applications. Programming and operation are simple with intuitive controls on a large graphics touch screen. The RoboRocker can store up to 6 programs. During operation, the screen displays the status. This includes the current angle, time, and the number of completed cycles.

The platforms have slots or “docks” for culture plates. The docks can be removed to allow room for non-well plate sized items. The power supply brick can be kept outside the incubator so that only a thin power cord needs to go through the seal or a port in the incubator.

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