Life without antibiotics is almost unimaginable today. Nevertheless, more and more antibiotics are losing their effectiveness against new or resistant bacterial infections. In addition, no new class of antibiotics has been brought onto the market in recent decades. The antibiotics crisis is one of the greatest medical challenges of our time.
The modular robotics platform JenXplor at the Leibniz-HKI specializes in researching new antibiotics. JenXplor conducts fully automated experiments to discover new active substances. A robotic arm handles the test plates and guides them to the appropriate devices such as pipetting robots, incubators or automated microscopes. The repetitive work steps are carried out precisely and consistently, allowing experiments to be performed faster and more accurately. Visit JenXplor to learn more about the experiments used in the search for new antibiotics and to see the robot in action.
