No studies have been published in the German-speaking region on the efficiency of robotic dispensing machines in community pharmacies, but such studies have been performed in the USA and Great Britain and also on how robotic dispensing machines are used for preparing unit dose packs. The studies in the United States evaluated the impact of robots on the machine packaging of drugs in unit doses. Unit dose means the delivery of a single, packaged, clearly identifiable drug to a specific patient. This form of drug dispensing is receiving more attention from both the qualitative and the safety perspective.