That's How It Happened

Way way back at the dawn of time I mentioned how awesome the St Thomas' Hospital robot is. It cost £280k, but pays its own way in space saving efficiency. It controls the distribution and storage of 20,000 packets of pills in the dispensary. It arranges them in a way that appears random to a human observer, but which is actually maximally efficient for space and speed. The cool guy who commissioned the robot opened up the "cage" so i could take some photos and a movie (clumsily linked to here). The movie is tiny, but demonstrates the delicacy with which the robot picks a pack, and then the frankly scary speed with which it delivers it to the dispensing conveyor belt.

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