Cookbook

The PyLabRobot Cookbook is a curated collection of concise, modular code examples, called recipes, that demonstrate practical solutions to common lab automation challenges. Each recipe is short, focused, and reusable - designed to help you apply specific PyLabRobot features in real-world contexts. Rather than full experimental protocols, these recipes aim to inspire, teach, and accelerate your own automation workflows.

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Resource Movement

PlateAdapter

Hamilton STAR(let)

Move plate to Alpaqua magnet using CORE grippers

• Resource movement using CORE grippers
• Resource position check using grippers
• PLR autocorrection of plate placement onto PlateAdapter/magnet

Send PyLabRobot notifications to Slack

• Post run start/finish/failure messages to a Slack channel
• Forward semantic PLR EventBus operations automatically
• Uses only the Python standard library (no extra deps)
• Webhook URL stored in a local file outside the repo

Use ManualOperator in a Jupyter notebook

• Pause a notebook for an acknowledged manual handoff
• Reconcile a manually moved plate in PLR's resource model
• Observe incubator and ManualOperator lifecycle events