Projects

Pic and Place

Microbiology samples are loaded into the Pic&Place bucket at Central Recieving. The Pic&Place is mounted on a CCRI RoboCart mobile robot.

Pic&Place is a patented system that automatically loads and unloads cargo from a mobile robot, such as the CCRI RoboCart. Pic&Place is a magneto- mechanical system that is reliable, simple, and inexpensive, providing automated pickup and drop-off of goods. MARC designed Pic&Place to improve delivery of clinical samples within the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center clinical core laboratory.

Pic&Place was run continuously for over three years in the University of Virginia Medical Center.

A Medical Technologist later retrieves the samples for analysis.

The samples arrive at Microbiology, and are automatically exchanged for and empty bucket, which is returned to Central Receiving.