Lab Automation Instruments

Lab Automation Instruments

Automate your most tedious lab workflows — no programming required.

Automate your most tedious lab workflows — no programming required.

Design, execute, and track liquid handling protocols in minutes with an intuitive, browser-based platform that scales from a single pipette to a fully robotized workstation. Built for reproducibility, traceability, and regulatory compliance from day one.

Design, execute, and track liquid handling protocols in minutes with an intuitive, browser-based platform that scales from a single pipette to a fully robotized workstation. Built for reproducibility, traceability, and regulatory compliance from day one.
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Your Lab, Your Pace: Three Ways to Automate

Your Lab, Your Pace: Three Ways to Automate

Every laboratory is at a different point on its automation journey. Waters Lab Automation meets you where you are — and grows with you

  • Advised — Start digital, stay flexible. OneLab Software provides digital standard operating procedures (SOPs) and full traceability, even without a robot. Scientists follow on-screen instructions while OneLab records every action, giving you a complete audit trail from day one. Best for labs beginning their digital transformation.
  • Assisted — Software-driven precision in your hands. Pipette+ Device execute protocols step-by-step with real-time software guidance. OneLab programs each aspiration and dispense, eliminates manual calculations, and tracks execution automatically, significantly reducing hands-on effort and transcription errors. Best for labs that need traceability and error reduction today.
  • Automated — Walk-away confidence. Andrew+ Robot runs complete workflows unattended, from aspiration to plate delivery, reducing manual workload by up to 90%. Add connected devices to build multi-step, lights-out-capable protocols, all orchestrated from a single software platform. Best for labs ready for full automation.

All three modes run on OneLab Software — one platform to design, execute, and document every experiment.

Andrew+ Robot
Transform manual pipetting into a fully automated, error-free liquid handling system with the Andrew+ Robot, powered by OneLab Software.

Pipette+ Stand
Maximize lab efficiency, reduce errors, and save bench time with Pipette+, intelligent software- connected devices that boost productivity.

Frequently Asked Questions

Waters Lab Automation bridges the gap between manual sample preparation and high-confidence analytical results — removing the variability, errors, and bottlenecks that hold your lab back.

Built around OneLab Software's intuitive drag-and-drop interface, our instruments let any scientist build, run, and share protocols in minutes — no programming, no scripting, no specialized automation engineer required.

Get started fast with 65+ validated methods from the OneLab Protocol Library, then scale your workflows across teams, sites, and geographies with a single click. And when you're ready to build your own protocols, Andrew+ is already compatible with 550+ labware items via 110+ Dominos holders — and if yours isn't supported yet, you can simply request a new integration.

And because Waters Lab Automation is part of the broader Waters ecosystem, your sample prep connects seamlessly to LC and LC-MS analysis — giving you one continuous, traceable workflow from sample to result.

The Andrew+ Robot handles volumes from 0.2 µL to 10 mL using single- and multichannel electronic pipettes — the broadest dynamic range of any benchtop liquid handling robot. This means one instrument can cover everything from low-volume genomics and assay setup to larger-scale sample preparation, without the need for multiple platforms.

The Andrew+ Robot is designed to adapt to your lab, not the other way around. Its compact footprint sits comfortably on a standard lab bench and fits inside the majority of the Chemical Fume Hood and Class II biosafety cabinets — so you can automate sensitive workflows without rearranging your space or investing in new infrastructure.

With Waters, your lab can be compliance-ready from day one. OneLab Software supports 21 CFR Part 11 and EU Annex 11 requirements with built-in audit trails, electronic signatures, and role-based access. Every aspiration, dispense, and transfer is fully traceable — so you can focus on science, not paperwork.

Waters Lab Automation Solutions offer a growing ecosystem of connected devices. Your lab can expand beyond pipetting with Extraction+ Device for hands-free SPE, Heater-Shaker+ Device for temperature-controlled mixing, Peltier+ Device for rapid heating and cooling, Magnet+ Device for magnetic bead extractions, and Automation Portal+ for automated plate handover directly to your LC system — all orchestrated through OneLab Software.

With Waters, you can connect OneLab Software directly to Empower Software, MassLynx Software, and waters_connect Platform. With these connections, you can automate sample preparation and delivery to your analytical instruments — creating a continuous, digitally traceable workflow from sample to result.

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