One of the professional qualities of a pharmacist is the ability to accurately measure and packed the right amount of medication. But when a person has to deal every day with hundreds of patients, it may simply be tired or distracted, and therefore completely exclude the probability of error is impossible. However, this does not apply to the University of California at San Francisco, where the packaging of drugs involved in a trained robot.

Recipes prescribe doctors and send them to the robot via a computer network. For the organization of inventory control codes are used to "iron pharmacist" read by a scanner. After packing products are human control, which ensures compliance with the correctness of the formulation.

There is no doubt that an automated system efficiency of traditional, to the same long-term maintenance costs robot out cheaper labor costs.

Source: Ubergizmo.com