Uhh.... Hairy dependencies are very much a problem in this space just like any other type of IT system (in fact worse cause the code is usually written in C++ -

Uhh.... Hairy dependencies are very much a problem in this space just like any other type of IT system (in fact worse cause the code is usually written in C++ - so no package manager). Plus the tooling is non-existant... You will still need some type of client server architecture/failover redundancy. You also don't have very many options when it comes to testing. Writing simulations for this and running tests is very non-trivial. The algorithms themselves will need to take into account failures. What happens when one of the robots fails/wears out? (and this WILL happen) Deconflicting the robots is certainly nontrivial. For efficient solutions in this field theres a whole bunch of fairly non-trivial algorithms in Operations Research and planning that exist.