New York hospitals are increasingly automating pharmacy functions to free up staff and improve the accuracy and safety of dispensing medicine. They have embraced robots to store, catalog and fill ...

Tsukuba, Japan－Automation of life-science experiments through robots and computers is attracting attention worldwide in various fields, and the advancement of such automation may lead to improved ...

Johnson City, Tenn.-based Ballad Health has added three compounding robots to its central fill pharmacy at Bristol (Tenn.) Regional Medical Center. The Omnicell IVX Station robots — named Hank, Willie ...

Groomed for manual load and unload production applications requiring precision bonding, gasketing, potting, and sealing, the company's latest Robot Automation Dispensing Systems apply one- and ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Precision in drug delivery has long posed a significant challenge to the medical field. Relying on the body’s circulatory system to transport medications often results in ...

Welding, painting and dispensing sit at the intersection of precision, repeatability and risk. They are among the most technically demanding – and historically hazardous – processes on the factory ...

Robots are great tools for manufacturing and assembly processes that require motion, such as cutting, welding, dispensing, sanding and painting. They are less good at machining solid steel or ...

This is part two of MobiHealthNews' two-part series that highlights the evolution of innovations that changed healthcare over the past several decades. Keeping patients safe is a top priority for ...

With the explosion in robotic technologies that has occurred in the past decade, it’s important to realize there are three categories of robots: industrial, commercial and consumer. Within each ...