An island of gleaming white surfaces is suspended high above a busy distribution centre. A four-wheeled waist-high robot, a shiny and silent shuttered box, moves by itself to a hatch where a conveyer belt delivers freshly filled cartridges of drugs. Once full, the robot delivers its payload to a filling line, where robotic arms pick and drop individual tablets and capsules precisely into waiting trays. Followed by technicians watching its initial voyage, the robot returns to wait for its next instructions or takes itself to its charging point.
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