pipettor

A pipettor is an agent which does the pipetting, usually this is the scientist when manually pipetting, but there are autopipettors which are robots.

But being lazy one of my side projects is to make an automatical tardigrade pipettor (ML-based with motors and stuff).

It is highly unlikely that a lab is going to go out of their way to acquire the exact brand of pipettor tips or centrifuge in order to replicate the experiment.

The pipet is considered the tube, the pipettor is the mechanical attachment, I would say that is whether the attachment is with lips & tongue or not.

Does it still require a pipettor, or could it work with just a transfer pipet?

Wait a minute - are you actually depressing the top pipettor here?

I remember using a digital pipettor years ago that was already programmable for just this type of application (eppendorf maybe?).

Everything I've ever seen says that pipettor is in fact the pipette with additional components, not the scientist or the robot.

For instance (in the linked video), we demonstrate the use of a standard pipettor for transferring liquids from tubes on the electrowetting surface in our video.