Laboratory instruments for analyzing small fluid volumes, namely, electronic sensors for measuring fluid volumes moving through a microchannel; laboratory instruments for generating drops of fluids using digital microfluidics or electrowetting technology and laboratory instruments for transferring solids and liquids, including biological materials, from one location to another using digital microfluidics or electrowetting technology, namely, electronic pressure controllers for microfluidic chips; digital microfluid and electrowetting laboratory instruments, namely, microplates, microtubes, and microreservoirs; computer software, downloadable, for operating the aforementioned digital microfluidics or electrowetting technology instruments; laboratory instruments for use with automated liquid, analyte, reagent handling for genetic or genomic analysis, chemical synthesis, synthetic biology, and cell biology, namely, laboratory automation equipment being automated liquid handlers