Product Updates

August wrap-up

Mon, 02 Sep 2024 14:02:00 GMT

As August comes to a close and everyone settles back into their post-summer routines, we’re excited to share the latest updates to the Reshape platform. With everyone back in full swing, our team has been busy making improvements to enhance your experience. Let’s dive in:

Software Improvements:

Analysis Selection: We’re thrilled to introduce our brand-new Analysis Selection feature. Now, you can pre-select the appropriate analysis for each job or project, minimizing errors, saving time, and ensuring accurate data interpretation. Learn more here.
Self-service Network Configuration: For every new robot we ship, connecting to your wifi has gotten a lot easier. In fact, you’re now able to set it up yourself with our new self-serve network configuration option. For detailed instructions, check out our Knowledge Base article.

… We’ve also enhanced our analysis processing speed, ensuring that analysis results are delivered faster than ever 🐆

That’s it for August. We hope you’ve enjoyed getting back to work and that these updates make your day-to-day tasks even smoother. Stay tuned for more exciting updates next month!

July wrap-up

Wed, 31 Jul 2024 13:48:00 GMT

As July comes to an end and the heart of summer is upon us, we’re eager to share the latest and greatest updates. We hope you have had a little time to soak up some sun and enjoy some time off over the summer. Here at Reshape, some of us have been off, while the rest of our team has been busy enhancing your Reshape experience. Let’s explore the new updates:

Software Updates

Product Update Notifications: A new pop-up in the lower left corner will notify you of new updates on the Products Updates page, helping you stay informed about the continuous development of the Reshape platform.
Enhanced Temperature Graphs: Temperature graphs now zoom in on the target temperature for better readability, with color cues: gray for out-of-spec temperatures and green for in-spec temperatures (see example below).

Optimized Interface for Single Image Jobs: We removed the playback and added data as cards instead of graphs for a more streamlined interface in single image jobs (see example below).

Revamped ‘Create Job’ Panel: The ‘Create Job’ panel now features improved user interface elements, including consistent styling across inputs, enhanced mobile responsiveness, and new auto-select and autofocus functionalities.
Direct Links in Data Exports: Data exports now include a direct link to the specific well you’re looking at, facilitating quick access to visual documentation.

… and we improved analysis speed 🐆

Hardware & Firmware Updates (from version 0.7.0 and up)

Improved Resilience to Internet Outages: Imaging devices now better survive short periods without internet access, significantly improving the retention and retrying of image uploads during/after an internet outage.
Auto-Updates for Imaging Devices: Imaging devices will auto-update their firmware on Wednesday nights, effective after a power cycle.
Overhaul of Lens Control: We have significantly improved the robustness of lens focusing.

That concludes our July updates. If you’ve been off – we hope you had a wonderful summer break. See you soon for more exciting news!

June wrap-up

Sun, 30 Jun 2024 06:57:00 GMT

As June wraps up and summer begins, we’re excited to share the latest enhancements to the Reshape platform. While many of you might be heading out for vacations, our team has been hard at work to enhance your experience. Let’s dive in:

Software Updates

Scroll anchor on Job List: The job list now remembers your place on the page (the anchor), allowing you to return to the same anchor after accessing a job from the job list.
Cross-Project Views: You can now view, search, filter, and sort jobs, plates, and wells across different projects, with the system remembering your search queries and filters. Links to specific search views can be shared by copy/pasting the URL.
Insect Pipeline: A general pipeline has been deployed to measure insect size and activity over time. Contact our support team if you have insect experiments you’d like to conduct with Reshape
CFU Detector: A new and improved version of the CFU detector has been deployed.

Hardware & Firmware Updates

Minor Firmware Overhauls: Numerous small improvements have been made to enhance overall performance.

That’s it for June. If you’re heading out on summer vacations, enjoy and stay tuned for more updates!

May wrap-up

Fri, 31 May 2024 09:39:45 GMT

As May comes to a close, we’re excited to announce a new wave of product updates to the Reshape platform.

This month, we focused on enhancing the user experience. We fixed some errors on our fans, introduced deep linking, and made our UI more intuitive. A lot is happening behind the scenes at Reshape as we expand our team rapidly after our latest funding round – all investments aimed at improving and expanding our offering. Let’s dig in:

Software Updates

Deep Linking: We introduced deep linking to plates and wells. When viewing a specific well or plate, you can now copy the URL and share it. The link will open to the same plate or well view, providing a colleague with visual context. Remember to toggle the job ‘share’ setting on/off to control who can see it.
Light Labels: On the newer Imaging Units, we’ve simplified the light and fluorescence labels seen when creating a new job to make them easily understood.
Help Menu: A handy Help menu is now located in the lower left corner. It contains links to contact our support, access the knowledge base, and this product updates page.

Hardware & Firmware Updates

Fan Error Fix: We created a fix for an error in the Imaging Units’ fans that, under very specific conditions, caused the system to stop jobs. This fix will be deployed with the newest version of the firmware.

That’s it for May. Stay tuned for more updates.

April wrap-up

Tue, 30 Apr 2024 09:32:31 GMT

Spring has sprung (at least here in Denmark!). It brings brighter days outside and within Reshape.

In this new format, we try to wrap up everything Reshape for you in an easily digestible format. In this month, we were excited to share our new Projects feature. We also made improvements to turbocharge our software, plus we made some significant improvements to our robots.

🎉 Feature Releases

Finally we were able to unveil something we’ve been working on for a while; a net little feature called Projects. Projects help you organize jobs into projects. It makes it easier to navigate and find relevant data and analysis. Read more here.

Hardware & firmware updates

Launched back in February but was missed by many – why it deserves an extra honorary mention: We have implemented color patterns on the robots’ door lights to indicate the robot’s status. This way you won’t have to interrupt the robot if it’s running a job. See what the colors mean here.
Another slightly older update, that deserves an honorary mention: We have significantly improved the image quality of both RFP and GFP images by eliminating background noise.
The color calibration of robots has been significantly improved, resulting in much-improved color reproduction.
Robots are now additionally being calibrated for perspective effect, to correct for any misalignments like shapes, centering, and physical size calibration, i.e. area/size of object in the image.

Software updates

We’ve restructured and cleaned up the backend of our product. We won’t bore you with the details but the outcome is interesting; Reshape Discovery (our web app) now loads much faster and will only keep improving.
We’ve added loading spinners on images when the system is fetching your job images.

That’s all! Here's to more sunshine and progress all around!