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BD Rowa is a robotics company founded 1996, based in Germany, developing 5 robots primarily in the Surgical / Medical category.
CAPITAL & EVIDENCE
BD Rowa has no confirmed funding round on file and has 4 deployments on record, all maker-verified.
Shipped
4named customers · 4 tied to a specific robot
4 maker-verified · on 1 robot
- Bahnhof Apotheke Stettbach, Dübendorf· BD Rowa Vmaxrowa.de ↗
- Drei-Linden-Apotheke, Karlsruhe· BD Rowa Vmaxrowa.de ↗
- Hirsch-Apotheke, Esslingen· BD Rowa Vmaxrowa.de ↗
- kosmetikfuchs.de, Erkelenz· BD Rowa Vmaxrowa.de ↗
Dispensing robots and digital selling solutions for pharmacies.
BD Rowa develops, produces and markets dispensing robots and digital selling solutions for pharmacies and the pharmaceutical industry. Its systems include BD Rowa Pickup, BD Rowa Vmax, BD Rowa Smart, and BD Rowa EasyLoad, and the company traces its origins to 1996 in Germany. The business focuses on automated stock handling and pharmacy workflow efficiency across pharmacy and hospital settings.
Active products
5
RoboIndex
53.67
RoboScore 53.67 + Momentum 0.00
Company facts
- HQ
- Germany
- Founded
- 1996 · 30 yrs
- Stage
- Acquired (2011)
- Website
- rowa.de
RoboScore
53.67 RoboScore + 0.00 Momentum· Adequate evidence
Products 65%, Depth 5%, Evidence 30% set the number, and every rated company has all three. Attention has no weight of its own — it is one of the two things Evidence is built from, and it can only ever add. Activity and Readiness describe the brand but never move it. A value we don't have reads —, never zero. Momentum is independently collected news coverage, worth at most 15 points and never a deduction — a maker we have heard nothing about keeps its full RoboScore. Claiming or paying moves nothing.
6 of 6 factors known. How it's calculated
On the company boards
- #7 of 39·Surgical / Medical·best robot 57.79 + depth 3.87 + news 0.00 = total 61.66
A board total ranks makers within one category. It is built from the best robot's RoboScore, a capped credit for more ranked robots, and news. It is not this company's RoboIndex above. How boards work
Milestones
CareFusion announced an agreement to acquire Rowa, a Germany-based pharmacy automation company.
Rowa was founded in Germany.
BD Rowa says its first ROWA robot was installed at St. Thomas' Hospital, London.
Press coverage
Public loss record
Consumer product alerts from this country reach the EU Safety Gate, which we read. Industrial, workplace and medical incidents never enter it, so a blank record says nothing about those.
Active products by BD Rowa
5 shown| # | Category | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | BD Rowa Vmax | Surgical / Medical | — | 57.8 |
| 2 |  | BD Rowa EasyLoad | Surgical / Medical | 2022 | 57.5 |
| 3 |  | BD Rowa Pickup | Surgical / Medical | — | 47.1 |
| 4 |  | BD Rowa Smart | Surgical / Medical | — | 47.1 |
| 5 |  | BD Rowa Dose | Surgical / Medical | — | 44.9 |
Surgical / Medical buying guides
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