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Queue, a Palo Alto, Calif.-headquartered startup building a fully autonomous robotic pharmacy, closed a seed round led by AlleyCorp.

July 1, 2026

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

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

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

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

Queue launches prescription kiosks with a $12.6M seed round

June 30, 2026 · Brock E.W. Turner

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

A machine that promises zero human involvement will have to convince state pharmacy boards that its checks match a human’s.

July 1, 2026

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

Queue, the developer of an autonomous robotic pharmacy system.

July 1, 2026

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

AlleyCorp, Riot Ventures and others backed autonomous robotic pharmacy Queue.

July 1, 2026

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

Each unit can stock approximately 250 to 280 of the most commonly prescribed drugs, with inventory tailored to local demand.

July 1, 2026

AI monitors medication levels and alerts pharmacy technicians when replenishment is needed.

July 1, 2026

Queue, which is developing a “fully autonomous robotic pharmacy,” raised a seed funding round led by AlleyCorp.

July 1, 2026

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

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

The new funding will go toward product development, broader deployments with pharmacy customers and expansion of the engineering team.

July 6, 2026 · Sean Mitchell

Palo Alto-based Queue develops robotic pharmacy automation systems that improve medication dispensing accuracy, efficiency, and inventory workflows for healthcare providers.

July 6, 2026

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

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

Unlike conventional pharmacy automation, which typically assists individual tasks, Queue’s platform integrates dispensing, verification, and fulfillment into a single autonomous workflow.

July 6, 2026 · Jijo Malayil

Queue, a pharmacy startup building a model that relies on robot kiosk, raised $12.6 million.

July 2, 2026 · Ngai Yeung

Queue, a California-based robotics startup, has unveiled the world’s first fully autonomous robotic pharmacy, designed to automate prescription dispensing, verification, and delivery.

July 6, 2026 · Jijo Malayil

In what is being called a world’s first, California-based robotics startup Queue has developed a fully autonomous robotic pharmacy capable of automating prescription dispensing, verification and delivery.

July 16, 2026 · Marie Donlon

Queue’s distinction is removing human involvement from the dispensing step entirely and compressing a full pharmacy operation into one machine.

July 14, 2026

The Queue robotic kiosk creates a closed-loop system for processing prescriptions by automating medication dispensing.

July 13, 2026

Queue looks to do that with its robotic pharmacy machines that fill and dispense more than 250 common drugs without a human pharmacist.

July 8, 2026 · Rebecca Szkutak

Queue says the technology aims to reduce pharmacy operating costs, improve dispensing accuracy, and expand access to prescription services by enabling automated pharmacy operations closer to where patients need them.

July 7, 2026 · Jijo Malayil

Queue aims to address these structural challenges by replacing labor-intensive prescription fulfillment with autonomous robotic infrastructure.

July 7, 2026

Healthcare robotics startup Queue has emerged from stealth with $12.6 million in seed funding to scale its autonomous robotic pharmacy kiosks, designed to dispense prescription medications without requiring an on-site pharmacist.

July 1, 2026 · DHN Bureau

Queue, a Palo Alto, Calif.-based developer of a fully-autonomous robotic pharmacy, raised $12.6 million in seed funding.

July 1, 2026 · Allie Garfinkle

Queue has emerged from stealth with $12.6 million in seed financing to accelerate the rollout of what it says is the world’s first fully autonomous robotic pharmacy, bringing the company’s total funding to $18.6 million.

June 30, 2026 · Paul Bluemner

Queue, a prescription kiosk company, raised $12.6m in seed funding, per Axios Pro.

June 30, 2026 · Brock Turner

Silicon Valley-based Queue builds a full pharmacy in a compact machine.

July 21, 2026 · Rebecca Szkutak