[bobmaxup]

I thought these devices were called pipettors not strictly micropipettes?

[kortex]

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

Pipettes are originally the glass tubes of fixed or graduated volume, but the definition has expanded to include air displacement pipettes aka "micropipettes" (even when the volume is measured in milliliters not microliters, they are still colloquially micropipettes).

[dekhn]

Everything I've ever seen says that pipettor is in fact the pipette with additional components, not the scientist or the robot. https://www.sigmaaldrich.com/US/en/products/labware/liquid-h...

[fuzzfactor]

It's just terminology, "regular" pipets dispense mainly in milliliters, micropipets dispense in microliters.

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.