Hardware
Cassette and vessel interfaces
The current direction is modular liquid handling across multiple vessels. Vessel format, interfaces, and capacity remain open; the 16-slot carrier is an earlier concept.
An earlier carrier concept
An earlier concept used a 4 by 4 carrier. It remains a design reference, not a selected architecture or a validated research system.
We need to compare existing vessels and carriers against a specific workflow before choosing the connections, capacity, and layout.
Why this is hard
Cells are sensitive to stress, bubbles, flow imbalance, evaporation, handling differences, temperature drift, and contamination posture.
The cassette has to be boring in the right way: reproducible, inspectable, documented, and validated before anyone reads too much into a biology result.