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This paper aimed to develop a prototype that can provide help to elderly people in remembering their medication intake on time by creating an automated medicine dispenser with an alert system. Elderlies (<tex xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">$n=9$</tex>), aged 60 and above, from the organization of Senior citizen Damong Maliit Chapter in Barangay Nagkaisang Nayon, Novaliches, Quezon City, individually tested the proposed prototype - and automated medicine dispenser with an alert system for one day each - that had three major processes: automatic [1] sorting, [2] dispensing, and [3] inventory. The analysis showed that the respondents gave the prototype an overall outstanding evaluation in terms of functionality, reliability, maintainability, extensibility, and economic feasibility. In comparison between the average rate of the elderlies and the prototype, the prototype was more reliable in terms of dispensing and updating medicine logs, but took longer in sorting the medicine that resulted in 29.44% and 100% accuracy of executing main processes for elderly and prototype respectively, an error reduction of 100% that showed the prototype is highly effective solution, and the prototype completed all the processes 15.72% faster than the elderly. The findings in this paper proved that the proposed prototype, automated medicine dispenser using Robotics and Image Processing with alert system, is a highly effective tool that eradicated human error in providing help to elderly individuals with timely and accurate medication intake where it highlights its potential as a reliable and efficient solution to manual medication management.