Well, people are still buying them, otherwise I'd be out of job. My experience with the Tecan and Hamilton machines that I got to interact with was that the set

Well, people are still buying them, otherwise I'd be out of job. My experience with the Tecan and Hamilton machines that I got to interact with was that the setup seemed tedious as hell, but once it was off and running, it would rapidly outpace even the best pipetters.