Normally human pharmacists mix the drugs according to prescriptions. With robot pharmacists, the picking, sorting and mixing is all automated. With the bots counting, bottling, and labelling prescriptions, they promise to shorten the time it takes to fill an order, sometimes by a few hours. Pharmacies are getting busier, and people are ordering in robots to deal with the workload.

Pharmacies buy drugs in bulk rather then pre mixed because they are cheaper that way. It may sound like something out of the Jetsons but robot pharmacists are a growing trend. In a typical set up, a human pharmacist might have a robot assistant doing their grunt work while they do the talking with the customers.

You may just not have seen it in action if your friendly neighborhood pharmacy robot happens to work behind the counter.  Robots are mostly useful for large pharmacy chains. What You Need to Know About Robot Pharmacists  Like their human counterparts, robot pharmacists simply do what the doctor ordered they fill prescriptions and dole out drugs.  Pharmacies expect that their robot employees will save them time.

It's even possible you have already been served by a robot in your local pharmacy but just don't know it.