Customers need not be afraid as the CONSIS robotic dispenser is merely making life easier for the pharmacists and not replacing staff.

“It’s cutting down time,” proprietor Linda Badewitz-Dodd said.

“It gives us more time to speak with customers and work with them.”

The state-of-the art machine dispenses 88 per cent of subscriptions, all at the click of the button.

Ms Badewitz-Dodd said her staff love it, while customers were invited to vote on a name on the pharmacy’s Facebook page.

‘Doddy’ won out, aptly named after Ms Badewitz-Dodd’s late husband.

The dispenser is standout difference among a host of other changes at the pharmacy, which includes new consulting rooms and greater desk space.

It’s the first renovation in about 20 years in the pharmacy’s 50-year history in Merimbula.