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Press coverage of Queue and its work building the world’s first fully autonomous robotic pharmacy.
Queue, a Palo Alto, Calif.-headquartered startup building a fully autonomous robotic pharmacy, closed a seed round led by AlleyCorp.
July 1, 2026
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A study by GoodRx found that nearly a third of Americans don’t fill their prescriptions due to high costs and access issues.
June 30, 2026
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Nearly one in three U.S. pharmacies have closed since 2010, contributing to the rise of so-called pharmacy deserts.
June 30, 2026 · Nickie Louise
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Each cell in the system can hold thousands of pills, and it can fill a vial of 60 pills every 30 seconds.
June 30, 2026 · Eugene Demaitre
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It’s designed to make fulfilling a prescription as simple as walking up and displaying a QR code on a phone to verify the script.
June 30, 2026 · Kyt Dotson
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Queue launches prescription kiosks with a $12.6M seed round
June 30, 2026 · Brock E.W. Turner
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The kiosk uses computer vision to identify every pill to a National Drug Code (NDC) and prescription for high accuracy.
June 30, 2026 · Heather Landi
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A machine that promises zero human involvement will have to convince state pharmacy boards that its checks match a human’s.
July 1, 2026
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Queue is positioning autonomous prescription fulfillment as a new infrastructure layer for American healthcare, enabling pharmacy services to move closer to patients while improving unit economics.
July 1, 2026 · Amit Chowdhry
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Queue, the developer of an autonomous robotic pharmacy system.
July 1, 2026
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Co-founded by Nick Desai, a six-time venture-backed entrepreneur who previously founded and led Heal, and Josh Liu, whose experience spans Tesla and Zipline.
July 1, 2026 · FinSMEs
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AlleyCorp, Riot Ventures and others backed autonomous robotic pharmacy Queue.
July 1, 2026
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A one-year-old Palo Alto startup building robotic pharmacy kiosks that verify prescriptions by QR code and dispense common medications in retail, hospital, and underserved locations.
July 1, 2026 · Alex Gove & Connie Loizos
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Each unit can stock approximately 250 to 280 of the most commonly prescribed drugs, with inventory tailored to local demand.
July 1, 2026
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AI monitors medication levels and alerts pharmacy technicians when replenishment is needed.
July 1, 2026
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Queue, which is developing a “fully autonomous robotic pharmacy,” raised a seed funding round led by AlleyCorp.
July 1, 2026
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Queue says it has built a working system that takes sealed wholesale pill bottles and produces filled, verified prescription vials.
July 6, 2026 · Sean Mitchell
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The technology could be used in retail pharmacies, hospitals, rural communities and other settings where access to pharmacy services is limited.
July 6, 2026 · Sean Mitchell
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The new funding will go toward product development, broader deployments with pharmacy customers and expansion of the engineering team.
July 6, 2026 · Sean Mitchell
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Palo Alto-based Queue develops robotic pharmacy automation systems that improve medication dispensing accuracy, efficiency, and inventory workflows for healthcare providers.
July 6, 2026
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In a Palo Alto pilot site, a machine now takes sealed wholesale pill bottles and produces verified, labeled prescription vials with no on-site staff anywhere in the loop.
July 6, 2026 · Annemarije de Boer
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Queue says it can fill a 60-pill vial every 30 seconds — roughly 600 pills per minute at full configuration — and currently supports around 250 commonly prescribed medications.
July 6, 2026 · Annemarije de Boer
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