Artificial
Intelligence / Hyper-Automation
The United
Arab Emirates (UAE) has inaugurated its first "robot pharmacy"
at Rashid Hospital in Dubai, UAE state news agency WAM reported on
Friday.
This smart
pharmacy is deploying a robot for the first time in the UAE to
dispense prescribed medication, which would be done at a click of
button based on a bar code, therefore "minimize any human
error," said the report.
The robot,
which will start serving customers from Sunday, can store up to
35,000 medicines and dispense around 12 prescriptions in less than a
minute, which would reduce customers' waiting time significantly.
The Dubai
Health Authority (DHA) said it plans to adopt the use of robot in all
its hospitals soon.
The robot is
one of the latest smart technologies adopted by the authority to meet
the 2016-2021 strategy, which aims to achieve a "happy and
healthy society," DHA said.
The UAE has
installed robots at several public places in order to be at the
forefront of a digital economy within the Arab world. Robots greet
passengers at Dubai international airport and the first driverless
cars are tested by the Dubai government in the Business Bay near the
world's tallest tower Burj Khalifa.
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