UCSF’s automated pharmacy has won a 2011 Best of What’s New award from Popular Science. The awards recognize 100 innovations that indicate where technology is headed in the future. Each year, the ...

Andrea Thomaz, co-founder and CEO of Diligent Robotics, credits the company's achievements to progress on its embodied AI ...

Yet, she said, the robotic pharmacy checks for drug interactions and prints an easy-to-understand disclosure for patients. “It is a machine, but it is a very well-thought-out machine ...

Consumers have long been getting everything from cash to airline tickets from automated machines. Now add prescription drugs to the list. Longs Drug Store Corp. will be the first Northern ...

Lynn Paulsen smiles like a proud parent as she watches tablets of anti-constipation medication slide by on a conveyor belt in UCSF's new pharmacy headquarters. The tablets have just been sucked by ...

The company is expanding the number of retail stores served by its micro-fulfillment centers, which use robots to fill thousands of prescriptions for patients who take medications to manage or ...

With a new automated hospital pharmacy, believed to be the nation's most comprehensive, UCSF is using robotic technology and electronics to prepare and track medications with the goal of improving ...

The robotic pharmacy prescription dispensing systems market is segmented by end-user (Hospital pharmacies and Retail pharmacies) and geography (North America, Europe, APAC, MEA, and South America).

UCSF’s Robotic Pharmacy Frees Up Time for Pharmacists. Pharmacists don’t go to school just to perform menial tasks behind a drug counter, yet that’s exactly what many of them end up doing.

The changes also follow mounting discontent among pharmacy staff: In 2023, nationwide walkouts spotlighted burnout and chronic understaffing, forcing chains to reexamine their operational models.

Walgreens doubles down on prescription-filling robots to cut costs, free up pharmacists amid turnaround Walgreens first rolled out the robot-powered centers in 2021, but paused expansion in 2023 ...