danger of mixing up the medication. when people hear about robotic pharmacies they may think we don't need pharmacists anymore. >> well, in actuality, what we're doing is we're live annualing the pharmacists so they can spend more time in the hospital really focusing on the improvement in drug therapy. >> reporter: lynn paulson purchased this robotic equipment for the university of california san francisco hospital for $7 million. it's not at your neighborhood pharmacy yet but medical experts believe someday it will be. the robot gets its commands from a digital prescription pad from a doctor's orders entered into a computer database. from there, the machine plucks the pills one by one and packages them. >> twice a day we get an electronic feed of all of the doses for every patient in the hospital that needs to be filled. >> reporter: the equipment will even assemble and mix intravenous medicine which all about ensures products are just