Authored by Jijo Malayil via Interesting Engineering,
Queue, a California-based robotics startup, has unveiled the world's first fully autonomous robotic pharmacy, designed to automate prescription dispensing, verification, and delivery.
Queue has deployed its robotic pharmacy with a major US pharmacy chain for early commercial use.QueueThe platform accepts sealed wholesale medication bottles and produces filled, verified prescriptions with minimal human intervention.
Queue says the technology aims to reduce pharmacy operating costs, improve dispensing accuracy, and expand access to prescription services by enabling automated pharmacy operations closer to where patients need them.
The company also announced it has raised $12.6 million in funding to accelerate development and deployment of the system.
Automating Prescription Fulfillment
The system is designed to automate the entire prescription fulfillment process, from handling sealed wholesale medication bottles to producing filled and verified prescription vials with minimal human intervention.
Unlike conventional pharmacy automation, which typically assists individual tasks, Queue's platform integrates dispensing, verification,
