New dispensing robot launched as Outpatient Pharmacy moves at Sunderland Royal Hospital

The BD Rowa Vmax, nicknamed Roberto, is helping staff at Sunderland Royal Hospital dispense medicine in double quick time.

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00:00 Hi, I'm James Hubbard, Superintendent Pharmacist for Choice and I'm here in our new outpatient

00:16 pharmacy based in the Chester Wing at Sunderland Royal Hospital and I'm delighted to introduce

00:21 our new BD Roar outpatient robot. The robot's been a massive investment but it'll provide

00:28 huge benefits for staff working in the pharmacy as the robot's able to pick items, label them

00:35 and also put stock away so it means that staff can then direct the time to patient care.

00:41 So I'll just give a little demonstration of how the robot works. So I've selected an item

00:48 to output and we're going to send it to the conveyor belt down the side of the robot.

00:59 So the robot's now in the process of picking the packs and they'll all come out of this

01:04 output here. So there we are, two packs picked in less time than it would take for someone

01:20 to go and retrieve them. So if we then want to put these packs away, we have the conveyor

01:28 belt and then the conveyor belt starts to work and it puts the item into the robot.

01:54 [Robot sounds]

02:01 [Music]