Electrical and scientific apparatus, namely, automated DNA optical scanners; optical imaging equipment, namely, microscopes for visual inspection, identification, and metrology; automated microscopy systems comprising microscopes and computer hardware and software for high content imaging of microtiter plates, microscope slides and biological samples; electromechanical hardware and software systems comprising computers, computer software, electromechanical positioners for micropositioning control, for use in the field of photonics, digital flow control, semiconductor test and inspection, and microscopy and optical scanners and scanning systems for lasers; [ computer software for microscopy, imaging, and informatics in the field of clinical and diagnostic testing; ] electromechanical hardware and software systems comprising computers, computer software, electromechanical positioners for use in the inspecting and analysis of biological samples; electric actuators, namely, high precision electric computer controlled devices for adjusting laser frequency of tunable lasers; electromechanical valve actuators, namely, high precision electric computer controlled valves for use in high precision flow applications; precision positioning systems comprised of optical indexers, namely, an optical train with a camera comprised of an objective lens, a shutter and a filter wheel that enables image data to be digitized, microscopy stages, electronic control circuitry, motion control chassis, linear actuators, screw actuators, linear slider, electric motors, and tunable lasers for use in precision positioning in the fields of photonics, biomedical imaging, fluidics, mass flow valves, life sciences, and semiconductor manufacturing; Precision positioning systems comprised of optical indexers, namely, an optical train with a camera comprised of an objective lens, a shutter and a filter wheel that enables image data to be digitized, microscopy stages, electronic control circuitry, motion control chassis, linear actuators, screw actuators, linear slider, electric motors, and tunable lasers for use in precision positioning in the field of clinical diagnostics