This blog will be an insight into our summer placement in a company which specialises in using automation to replace traditional manual-dispensing method, which is seen commonly behind the counter in pharmacies. 5/6 We arrived at the company. We were greeted by the company manager.we were given a tour around the office and being shown the robot that they used to store original pack medication in a managed space and to retrieve the packs at point of dispensing. Each type of pills is stored in a canister of its own. When an order comes in the system. It retrieves the necessary amount of pills from each canister and processed. (Usually, the patient needs to take multiple medications over a month or so, and also each drug may have different dosage, so maybe pill A needs to be taken two times a day -morning and evening and pill B only need to be taken once every two days. This brings importance to controlling the dosage and quantity of each pill as impreciseness of the dosage can...