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I think it's flexibility and less fixed infrastructure. You don't have to build a conveyor belt system to cover a rectangular area. You just need holes and nav

• grogenaut 10y ago
  You still have to build tons of vertical slots and a ton of floor space for all of those slots. Also I feel that this thing will start getting a exponential congestion problem. The layout from the video: oox ooo ooo Which means that you need 9 grids for every one slot. Further, and this is where a proof would be needed, you'd have the following robot placements: roxrox rRRrRR rrrrRR roxrox rRRrRR rrrrRR One robot can move in this case but I'm not sure this is optimal. At this density I'm betting that you get into exponential moves to move all the way from 0,0 to 6,6. If you were more like roxrox orooro rorror roxrox orooro rorror you could more likely keep channels of movement. This is similar to a chip routing problem. So that's why you go vertical planes as well. But you still get limited throughput. I may have the math wrong (I haven't done it) EDIT: Ugh, no pre tags, take the ror ooo and line them up vertially on the breaks.