ABSTRACT
The complexity and cost of a robotic system is often measured by the sophistication of its instrumentation, including components such as robotic scintillation counters, pipetting systems, readers, washers, incubators, carrousels, capping /uncapping workstations, plate sealers or cap distributors. Unfortunately, the importance of a more abstract component, the software, is often underestimated. While the instrumentation is the body of a robotic installation, the software is its intelligence. It is mainly this intelligence that determines the productivity, flexibility and evolutivity of a robotic system (1).
