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Polar - cool robotics

Polar is cutting-edge engineering on a colossal scale - combining revolutionary refrigeration and icy-cool robotics. What for? Storing a mammoth 10 million blood and fluid samples in the UK's Biobank project. Polar combines the huge storage and cooling facility needed with a state-of-the-art sorting robot. And it's very, very cold!



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Image: The Automation Partnership
    Image: The Royal Academy of Engineering
 

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