Emmet
Emmet automates your flask based cell culture. Save time, mitigate human variability and elevate your research, today.
Reclaim your weekend
Liberate your team from endless repetitive tasks and coming in on Saturday’s to feed cells.
Reduce costly contaminations.
Say goodbye to having weeks of work and expensive reagents lost due to human error.
Fit your workflows
Reagent agnostic, supports adherent, suspension and multi-phase protocols.
Pursue your experimental dreams.
Conduct DOE based multi-parameter tests and develop protocols beyond human capabilities.
Meet your new cell culture team
Fits on a lab bench
<1m2 footprint fits on standard lab benches
Saves you time
80%+ less labour required for cell culture workflows
Elevates your science
Reduce process failures by 50%+
Emmet standardises and automates the production of any cell type.
Stem cell expansion
With Emmet, you can fully automate the culture of any anchorage dependent cell type, including iPSCs. From expanding a single cell line for banking to culturing multiple cell lines in parallel. Reduce errors. Increase your throughput. Spend less time feeding cells and more time planning and analysing experiments.
Differentiations
With Emmet, you can develop novel differentiation protocols and fully automate every step of your workflows. Remove points for human error and increase reliability. Explore the full range of machine driven protocols you can make with Emmet able to perform reagent exchanges 24/7. And perform multi-parameter experimental conditions testing to discover the optimal protocols for your cells.
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Minimize setup time and contamination risks
Say goodbye to endless pinch valves and tedious instrument set ups with our patented fluid distribution cartridge.
Culture multiple cell lines in one instrument
Conduct parallel experimental conditions testings and culture up to 18 cell lines or protocols in parallel.
Custom Programmable Protocols
Customize and codify each step of your cell culture protocol into a machine action to mitigate the number one cause of error in the lab: human variability.
Frequently asked questions
Emmet is an intelligent machine designed to close, automate and scale mammalian cell culture workflows, specifically anchorage dependent, TC flask based protocols. Think of Emmet as an incubator, TC hood, refrigerator, process monitoring system, and a cell culture technician all in one machine that fits on a lab bench.
Emmet standardises and automates cell culture workflows, including seeding, media exchange/perfusion, passaging, differentiation and harvesting, so you can spend less time moving liquids between flasks, and more time designing and analysing experiments.
Emmet leverages fluidics, mechanical actuation, environmental controls, metabolic sensing and machine intelligence.
Emmet has a gas and temperature-controlled incubated section where the actual cell culture occurs, as well as an onboard refrigerated reagent storage section. This is integrated together with our fluid manifold and fluidic exchange system enabling point-to-point movement from almost any input/output in Emmet. When combined with a series of parallelized "plug-and-play" cell culture vessels. This allows Emmet to move fluids from reagent storage to incubator (feeding), vessel to vessel (passaging), mixing chambers to waste receptacle (spent media removal), and beyond. Cell culture vessels are machine-actuated to provide ideal mixing conditions for your cell lines and protocols. Finally, we have implemented metabolic sensors to monitor cell cultures in real-time and are developing a process control system that can also monitor and optimize your cell culture in real-time.
Currently, any commonly anchorage-dependent cell line, including the most challenging to culture cells, such as iPSCs.
But in principle, any cell line. We and our partners have thrown as many cell lines as we can think of growing in Emmet, and Emmet has yet to miss a step.
We started developing Emmet using iPSC culture. In our experience, these are the most complex cell types to automate the culture of. We’ve demonstrated that Emmet can reliably expand anchorage-dependent iPSCs and run protocols to generate differentiated progeny in both adherent and suspension processes. Which in our experience many manual operators struggle to do, even with years of training. Emmet, however, is already trained in cell culture and is ready to join your team.
Yes. In Emmet's current embodiment, you could culture up to 18 cell lines in parallel.
Emmet is fully compatible with anchorage-dependent cell lines and protocols.
We’ve demonstrated that some suspension-adapted cell lines and protocols work with Emmet. This is an area of active development, and if you'd like to discuss adapting your suspension-based protocols to Emmet we would be happy to speak with you.
No. We’ve created a no-code protocol builder that anyone can use to create customised cell culture protocols. You’ll need to build your protocol on a computer (e.g., a laptop). Once complete, your protocol can be uploaded to Emmet.
We are developing a remote access tool that you could run from your computer to monitor Emmet and make go/no-go process decisions remotely.
