Laboratory automation is an expensive and complicated endeavor with limited inflexible options for small-scale labs. We designed, developed, and tested a prototype system to automate a bench-top centrifuge, which has applications in reducing the cost and number of man hours for lab sample processing. Our prototype system uses computer vision methods for color detection and circular Hough Transforms to detect and localize centrifuge buckets. Initial results show that the prototype is capable of automating the usage of regular bench-top lab equipment.
Presented at the 22nd International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots, July 2025.