Here’s Myra, the world’s first automated liquid handling system that can see.
The Myra liquid handling system incorporates cutting-edge algorithms, an automatic pipette and an integrated camera, ensuring precision pipetting. In laboratories across the UK, Myra helps save valuable time through exceptional speed, pinpoint accuracy, user-friendly software and minimal maintenance.
Why Choose a Myra?
Precision, Speed, and Simplicity for Your Lab
Perfect performance for a precise job
Excellent data begins with accuracy and precision. With our state-of-the-art automatic pipette head delivering < 1% at 5μL volumes, Myra gives you confidence in every result.
Save Time on
Tedious Tasks
Free up your time for more valuable work. The Myra automatic pipette is both fast and precise, helping reduce inaccuracies and improve day-to-day laboratory efficiency.
Easy setup
Our Myra is the first liquid handling system with an integrated camera to help simplify robot calibration and setup. With an easy user interface that can integrate seamlessly with the Mic, you are able to set up, run and analyse experiments in one place. For labs searching for an automated liquid handling system in the United Kingdom, Myra offers a straightforward path to smarter workflow automation.
Smaller size means more space in the lab
At less than 10 kg and a footprint of less than 2 ft2, Myra is half the size of other automated liquid handling systems in its class. It’s an ideal choice for laboratories in the UK where bench space is at a premium.
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Why do you need automated liquid handling systems?
A liquid handling robot is an automated device designed to handle liquids accurately and efficiently in laboratory settings. It enables precise dispensing, mixing and transferring of liquids, reducing human error and increasing productivity. These automatic pipette robots play an essential role in scientific and medical research. Today, Liquid handling instruments in the UK are no longer seen as a luxury but as an everyday laboratory tool, both here and around the world.
Precise liquid handling robotics at your fingertips
In conjunction with the automatic pipette, Myra features a built-in camera and advanced software that allow it to visually interpret and respond to each task. This functionality also grants Myra the power to actively monitor and track objects for potential errors. For laboratories looking for a liquid handler in the UK, Myra delivers the precision, ease of use and intelligent functionality expected from leading robotic liquid handling systems.
Pressure-based liquid level sensing that can monitor the aspirate and dispense process for errors.
Simplicity
Streamlined solutions are available for standard laboratory processes, including qPCR, normalisation, pooling, cherry-picking and simple liquid transfers, even for 384-well plates. For more complex procedures such as NGS library preparation, cell media washing or determining minimum inhibitory concentrations for antibiotic susceptibility or resistance, you can harness the power of Python-based scripting functions.
Your Low-Maintenance High-Volume Pipetting Robot
When it comes to testing and analysis, laboratory facilities cannot afford inaccuracy or downtime. Myra requires very little maintenance, helping maintain productivity and efficiency at the highest level. Compared with other liquid handling instruments in the UK, Myra is a liquid handling robot designed to perfection
Calibrate the Myra pipetting robot with one click using the precision camera – no manual adjustments needed, only active tubes are calibrated.
Next-gen control software unifies the Mic qPCR Cycler, Myra and Myra9 liquid handlers into the intelligent Myra+ system.
Powered by trained vision models, MyraVision is the intelligent eye of your setup. Checks for anything that could impact your workflow.
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Myra or Myra9
The Myra Liquid Handling System delivers exceptional pipetting precision through closed-loop axis control and camera-guided calibration, all within a compact design weighing under 10 kg. Equipped with standard HEPA filtration and UV decontamination, it is ideally suited for busy laboratory environments in the UK.
Myra9 builds on this foundation by adding three additional deck positions — nine in total — enabling 384-well plate workflows and higher throughput applications. Despite this increased capacity, Myra9 retains the same lightweight, space-saving design, making it a practical choice for laboratories across the United Kingdom looking to scale without increasing their footprint.
Myra
A precise and accurate liquid handling robot with an integrated vision camera, now supporting NGS library preparation and bead clean-up workflows. Built for reliability and efficiency, it is an ideal solution for laboratories in the UK looking to streamline complex workflows.
Deck Capacity
6 SBS positions
Pipette Head
Interchangeable heads
Dimensions & Weight:
460 mm (L) × 360 mm (W) × 310 mm (H); 10 kg
from $29,500 USD*
Myra 9
Myra9 offers three additional deck positions compared with Myra, allowing you to set up larger or more complex protocols without compromising on space — ideal for laboratories in the UK.
Deck Capacity
9 SBS positions
Pipette Head
Interchangeable heads
Dimensions & Weight:
468 mm (L) × 520 mm (W) × 356 mm (H); 17 kg
from $39,000 USD*
Joint Specifications
Performance
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The Myra liquid handling system boasts best-in-class accuracy and precision, with deviations of less than 2% for 2μL pipetting volumes. This remarkable precision is achieved through closed-loop axis control, which relies on optical encoders and advanced path planning. As a result, you only need to calibrate positions once, ensuring consistent and high-precision automatic pipette tip positioning, even for small aperture tubes like 384 or 1536 well plates. This, in turn, reduces the frequency of tip changes.
Additionally, the interchangeable automatic pipette head provides you with greater flexibility to meet all your liquid handling requirements. Each automatic pipette head contains its own calibration data, eliminating the need for recalibration with each exchange. Furthermore, Myra now offers the option to vortex, utilizing a high-speed rotating motion of the Myra head to enhance and expedite the mixing of reagents.
| Position control: | Closed loop, 100 μm resolution with optical encoders |
| Calibration: | High precision camera |
Size
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Myra is a dynamic liquid handler designed with both style and function in mind. It weighs less than 10kg and boasts a footprint of less than 2ft2, which is half the size of other instruments in its class.
A closed pipette tip waste container reduces the system footprint and lowers the risk of contamination. UV LED lights and a compact HEPA filter further help reduce contamination risk. This compact design across both components contributes to the reduced size and weight of the Myra liquid handling system, making it especially well suited to busy laboratories in the United Kingdom.
| Height | 130mm (610mm lid open) |
| Width | 350mm |
| Length | 460mm |
| Weight | 10kg |
Liquid Handling System Accessories
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Introducing an open SBS platform for all consumable types. We offer various blocks, including the Multipurpose block, which can accommodate standard tube formats and provides setup flexibility without sacrificing space. Furthermore, you have the option to expand the library with your own plate or tube type. If needed, our in-house capabilities can even 3D-print blocks to house exotic tubes or plate types upon request.
In addition to these features, the introduction of a Myra magnetic station has unlocked new possibilities, enabling techniques such as magnetic bead-based NGS library preparation.
To support a wider range of applications, we also offer various cooling blocks that help maintain lower temperatures for extended periods during sample handling and reactions.
If you would like to enhance your Myra robotic liquid handling systems in the UK, we are here to help you explore the full potential of your setup.
Automate qPCR on the Mic Cycler
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Experience a perfectly seamless workflow when connecting the Myra liquid handling system with the Mic cycler for qPCR. Both instruments can be operated from a single user interface, eliminating the need for exporting or importing sample names. Simply set up, run, and analyse your experiments all in one convenient location.
Once done, you can configure experiments for multiple Mic cyclers using a single Myra liquid handling system and analyse the results in a unified file using the Project feature.
We don’t limit our offerings to just qPCR. You can also take advantage of simplified solutions for NGS library preparation, bead cleanup, normalisation, cherry picking, dilutions, titrations and pooling.
NGS Library Prep and Bead Clean-up
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Myra offers semi-automated library preparation that streamlines workflow, significantly reduces manual error and improves reproducibility while minimising hands-on time.
Capable of handling up to 24 libraries, Myra incorporates a 96 Well Magnetic Station for bead clean-up steps, with off-deck heating to reduce robotic downtime. The workflow is split into manageable runs, with safe stopping points after the various library preparation steps, including bead cleanup.
In NGS, repeatability and reproducibility are paramount. The Myra liquid handling system can successfully generate high-quality DNA libraries, with performance comparable to manual methods. Sequencing runs show high Q30 scores and consistent barcode balance. Sequencing coverage exhibits uniformity across the prepared libraries, resulting in low library variability and reliable performance. Myra reduces manual labour while helping maintain high-quality sequencing results for laboratories in the UK and beyond.
Pipette Tips
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Minimise the frequency of tip replacement with our 384-well rack of 20 or 50µL tips. This not only benefits the Myra small liquid handler by freeing up deck space for additional plates, but also enhances accuracy and precision when handling smaller volumes. Furthermore, it decreases tip retention and provides superior positional accuracy for narrower tube openings.
Our 20µL tips are super straight. Perfect for applications requiring high precision positioning such as MALDI-TOF MS and 1536 plates.
| Price per tip | $0.18 USD ( all tips are filtered) |
Contamination Control
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| Tip disposal type | Internal enclosed waste container |
| HEPA filter | 99.98% at 0.3 µm |
| UV lamp | High intensity 70 mW 280 nm UV LED |
Communication
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| Type: | USB 2.0 |
| PC Requirements: | Windows 10 (64 bit), Intel i5 or equivalent processor, 8 GB RAM, 3 GB HD, 1080p screen resolution |
Operating Environment
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| Temperature range: | 18 – 30°C |
| Humidity: | 20 – 80% |
Electrical
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| AC Input | 100-240 VAC, 50/60 Hz 1.4 A Compatible with any countries standard plug/outlets |
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is a liquid handling system?
Liquid handling systems, also known as ALH systems, are used in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical research sectors to transfer liquids from one container to another through manual, semi-automated or fully automated processes. Robotic liquid handling systems are an essential part of workflow in many laboratories across the UK.
What are the benefits of using a liquid handling system?
Myra liquid handling systems have become a necessity in a greater number of laboratories and facilities. Our liquid handling instruments in the United Kingdom are versatile and scalable. Benefits include:
- Caters to a broad spectrum of applications.
- Automatic pipettes allow you to process a higher number of samples simultaneously, also with greater speed.
- Reduce the risk of cross-contamination.
- Better protects users from hazardous or infectious samples.
- With an automatic pipette, you will improve consistency, accuracy and precision for less sample loss.
- Errors are virtually eliminated.
- Workflows can be drastically streamlined.
- Reduces repetitive stress injuries for users that usually occur with manual handling.
What types of applications can the Myra liquid handling system be used for?
The Myra Liquid Handling System is a versatile laboratory tool designed for a wide range of applications in scientific research, diagnostics and industrial processes. Some key applications of our liquid handling instruments include:
- Molecular Biology: PCR and qPCR setup, nucleic acid extraction, genotyping and sequencing
- Clinical Diagnostics: sample preparation and assay development
- Drug Discovery: compound screening and serial dilutions
- Proteomics and Biochemistry: protein analysis and enzyme kinetics
- Agricultural and Environmental Science: soil and water testing and plant genomics
- Custom Workflow Automation: tailored protocols
Does Myra offer flexibility?
Myra’s automated liquid handling systems, powered by Workbench, make it a market leader in the industry. Myra includes qPCR, sample transfer, NGS library preparation, sample normalisation and pooling as standard, making set-up, configuration and analysis simple.
Myra liquid handling software also offers two qPCR settings, which can be tailored to your specific laboratory settings. If your consumable type is unavailable, Myra allows you to create custom definitions, and we can also 3D print blocks to suit exotic consumable types. The Myra liquid handling robotics system does give you the flexibility you need for your operations without being too complex.
What makes Biomolecular Systems' liquid handling system, Myra, better than others?
Myra is one of our most advanced liquid handling systems to date.
It’s robust, versatile, intuitive and easy to use. Myra also includes features rarely seen on other liquid handling platforms, making it a strong choice for laboratories looking for an automated liquid handling system in the UK.
Are demos with the Myra Liquid Handling System available?
Yes, Bio Molecular Systems offers demonstrations of the Myra Liquid Handling System. This hands-on experience will allow you to assess how Myra can enhance your laboratory workflows. To arrange a demonstration of our liquid handler, you can contact us directly or press the ‘Request a demo’ button below and fill out the form. One of our distributors will be in touch within 24 hours to arrange for a Mic or Myra to be sent to you in the UK.
Can liquid handling systems like the Myra liquid handler handle viscous liquids?
Yes, liquid handling systems can handle viscous liquids. Automated systems such as Myra are designed to manage a range of liquid viscosities with high accuracy and efficiency. These systems can adjust pipetting speeds, use specialised tips and apply advanced algorithms to deliver consistent, reproducible results. By automating the handling of viscous liquids, Myra improves workflow efficiency, reduces reagent waste and lowers the risk of errors and injuries associated with manual pipetting. For laboratories seeking a reliable liquid handler in the UK, Myra offers dependable performance across demanding applications.
Where is Myra manufactured?
Myra is designed and manufactured by Bio Molecular Systems in Australia. Bio Molecular Systems is a biotechnology company known for innovative laboratory instruments, including the Mic real-time PCR cycler and the Myra liquid handling system. Myra is available to laboratories in the UK through our distribution network.
Is Myra available outside of the United Kingdom?
Yes, the Myra liquid handling system is available outside of the United Kingdom. It is distributed globally through a network of partners and distributors, including across the UK.
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