Clemson, Nephron driving pharmaceutical manufacturing with new benchtop industrial robot

(Clemson University) Led by Dr. Yue 'Sophie' Wang, the ambitious project combines robotics and medicine to ensure sterility, quality, safety and efficiency in pharmaceutical manufacturing. The team worked in partnership with South Carolina-based Nephron Pharmaceuticals Corporation to develop a flexible, easy to use, open-source benchtop robot that can fill, cap and seal sterile syringes.