NPi-11
All-in-One Automated Cell Culture System
Streamline your workflow with fully integrated automation for cell maintenance, passaging, differentiation, imaging, and real-time analytics.
One Platform. Complete Control.
The NPi-11 transforms complex cell culture—including stem cell differentiation—into a scalable, automated process. High-precision pipetting and integrated checkpoints minimize variability, ensuring consistent, reproducible results across experiments, users, and sites.
Capable of around-the-clock operation, the NPi-11 automated cell culture system enables true walk-away automation. Reduced hands-on time improves workflow efficiency and throughput, while real-time remote monitoring keeps teams connected to system performance.
Complete Workflow Automation
Splitting, feeding, passaging, plating, and differentiation—the NPi-11 handles it all.
Integrated Cell Analytics
Built-in imaging delivers real-time cell counts and confluence data to guide automated decisions.
Smart Data Management
Centralized tracking of workflows, user actions, and results ensures full traceability.
Flexible Protocol Design
Intuitive drag-and-drop interface with customizable protocol templates enables rapid method updates.
Explore the System Behind the Science
Dual ISO-8655-compliant robotic arms with cross-sensor verification ensure proper tip attachment, continuous XYZ positioning calibration, and precise microliter liquid handling.
A built-in incubator holds up to 72 combined 100 mm dishes and SBS-format plates, maintaining stable temperature, CO2, and humidity within a fully enclosed environment.
A visual drag-and-drop protocol builder with pre-built templates makes it easy to create, adjust, and deploy workflows without specialized programming knowledge.
Real-time alerts and remote status updates give teams full visibility into system performance and run progress, so researchers can stay informed from anywhere.
A single integrated system replaces separate incubators, centrifuges, and imaging stations, consolidating your cell culture workflow into one space-efficient unit.
NPi-11 in Action: The Complete iPSC Workflow
From routine maintenance to complex differentiation, this automated cell culture system analyzes, adapts, and acts on real-time cell culture data.
What Researchers Are Saying
“It’s fantastic to freely control passaging, medium changes, and differentiation with commands to the PC. There’s no room for human error, and tasks can be run without hesitation on holidays or late at night.”
Professor Fumiyuki Hattori, PhD
“We have seen a tangible reduction in manual errors and a significant decrease in the time researchers must dedicate to repetitive manual tasks.”
Professor Takahiro Iwao, PhD
“With the robot doing the work, the students have it a lot easier. This allows them to dedicate significantly more time and energy to their actual research.”
Professor Tamihide Matsunaga, PhD
“First, the system improves process consistency and reproducibility. Second, it reduces operator-dependent variability. Third, it reduces repetitive manual operations, which helps lower labor burden and operational costs.”
Chih-Chuan Su, PhD
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Built for Your Research
One automated cell culture system, many applications. The NPi-11 delivers reproducible results across disease modeling, drug screening, and beyond.
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Standardized cell line maintenance and expansion across users
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Traceable iPSC culture and differentiation of multiple cell lines
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Efficient differentiation protocol and reagent development
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Scalable assay development and optimization
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Automated compound screening in SBS plates
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GLP-ready preclinical data collection and validation
NPi-11 Cell Culture Robot at a Glance
Take a closer look at the NPi-11. No bolt-on modules, no separate instruments, just one complete automated cell culture system.
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Guided by a vision to make tomorrow better than today, Panasonic channels world-class engineering expertise into the NPi-11 automated cell culture system.
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years of R&D underpin the NPi-11 system
years of platform use across China and Japan
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. The NPi-11's protocol builder supports multi-stage differentiation workflows with scheduled media changes, imaging checkpoints, and automated decision points. Once configured, the automated cell culture system executes the protocol autonomously. Users will need to replenish reagents and consumables periodically, with frequency depending on usage and protocol design.
The NPi-11 supports a broad range of workflows, including cell line maintenance and expansion, iPSC culture and differentiation, assay development, automated compound screening, and preclinical data collection. Its flexible protocol builder allows users to adapt workflows to their specific research needs. Explore the NPi-11 in our interactive 3D demo.
The NPi-11 automated cell culture system uses dual ISO-8655-compliant robotic arms with cross-sensor verification for precise liquid handling. Built-in phase-contrast imaging provides real-time confluence data that drives autonomous passaging decisions, removing operator-dependent variability and delivering standardized results across experiments, users, and sites.
The NPi-11 supports GLP compliance through centralized data tracking, automated audit trails, and full traceability of workflows, user actions, and results. This automated cell culture equipment is designed for research and preclinical applications within GLP environments. Explore software and traceability features in our interactive 3D demo.
Cell Culture Automation by Panasonic: Advancing Research Together
Reduce variability, save time, and scale your research with the NPi-11
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