Things like controlling the robot arm that takes individual items from the boxes require state of art computer vision/AI techniques and can't really be done wit

Things like controlling the robot arm that takes individual items from the boxes require state of art computer vision/AI techniques and can't really be done with classical approaches. Optimization of the robot movement across the grid might be done in various ways with different tradeoffs, but in general the study of algorithms for multi-stage planning is also a subfield of AI.