WASP^®: Walk Away Specimen Processor

WASP Overview

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The WASP (Walk Away Specimen Processor) instrument is the smart solution for truly comprehensive automation – taking you far beyond planting and streaking to address all aspects of pre-analytical automation. WASP is an open platform that automates protocols for high quality processing regardless of container or specimen type, such as swabs, liquid specimens, urine, or feces.

When you combine the Liquid Based Microbiology (LBM™) range with WASP automation, you ensure even more efficient laboratory workflow, improved quality and decreased turnaround time for microbiology testing.

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• Redeploy skilled staff: high autonomy, requires less user intervention
• Cost & time savings: high productivity (24/7 operation possible), fewer consumables and modular options to grow with your needs
• High standardization and traceability
• Hepa filter and camera control ensure safety for the specimen and the user
• Empowered by bioMérieux: complete service package, including lab performance assessment, training & education, and technology integration to boost your flexibility.

WASP Features

Flexibility without limits

WASP offers a uniquely flexible approach to automated streaking, with versatile protocol options and familiar streaking patterns. While other systems cannot transfer volumes under 10 µl, WASP uses loops of 1µl, 10µl and 30µl, so you can adapt to various sample sizes. Staff retraining is minimal, since the streaking pattern can be customized to suit you – WASP performs different classic patterns that reproduce familiar human gestures. Taken together, this means you can use the combination of loop and streaking pattern that best fits with your lab’s internal procedure for specimen handling to optimize your colony isolation quality. Finally, the loops are reusable – automatically sterilized after use – so they’re more ecological and economical.

We adapt to you. You don’t have to adapt to us.

WASP lets you build your own sample management workstation, customized to your needs. This modular design even grows with you as your needs change, prolonging the life of your investment.

Gram Slide Prep	Broth Inoculation	Disk Dispensing	Twin Loop	Urine Turntable
Inoculation of glass slides for Gram stain testing - inoculation, barcoding, barcode reading & reconciliation, fixation	Transfer an aliquot of the specimen from a primary vial into an enrichment broth tube and label the tube	Automatically place 6 antibiotic paper discs onto plates (up to 4 different dispensers available	Streak simultaneously both sides of bi-plates with a dual loop	Allows continuous loading of large screw cap containers
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Traceable, consistent and quality slide preparation	Full traceability	Regular spacing of the disks, no risk of contamination	Maximized efficiency	Higher productivity

WASPLab^®: Taking your lab to the next level

WASPLab takes the added value of the WASP automated instrument to the next level. This integrated lab automation system makes the full cycle of specimen and plate processing faster, easier and more reliable.

WASP Specs