What if the next scientific discovery was lost in a pipette tip? The biology, chemistry, and pharmaceutical industries use and dispose of trillions of plastic pipette tips, tubes and well plates. These single use plastics can lead to contact contamination, precious sample loss, and money wasted for companies both big and small. As businesses look to pipetting robots and automation solutions for their high-throughput needs, the use and negative effects of these disposable implements will only continue to increase.

To address these pains, we have created a contactless and programmable sample containment, mixing, and sensing platform that gets rid of disposable plastics and eliminates contact-based sample contamination and precious sample loss. During my PhD, I developed our core acoustic levitation platform which uses ultrasound in air to safely lift, move, and contain liquid droplets of solution or solid samples like living organisms and powders without making physical contact. Unlike traditional systems, our platform provides precision at scale and automation without complexity through our flexible and programmable acoustic manipulation workflow and integrated sensing suite which can even weigh levitated objects without touching them.

At Levity, it’s our mission is to help accelerate scientific discovery today by building the scientific instruments of tomorrow. We are excited to work with you whether you are an a current or future user of Levity systems, an interested developer, or a curious scientist. At Levity we don’t just levitate objects, we lift constraints.