I'd expect lab meat is a different kind of beast altogether when it comes to who is funding the development of it. This robot has an obvious business/marketing

I'd expect lab meat is a different kind of beast altogether when it comes to who is funding the development of it. This robot has an obvious business/marketing plan: the moment its better & cheaper than humans, it'll start to replace them everywhere. Hit that point and it'll sell in more or less known quantities. Don't hit it, it's (at best) a technology looking for a problem. Lab grown meat is who-the-fuck-knows R&D. How cheap does it need to be to sell how much of it/ How do we know when it tastes good enough. Who will buy it when it just hits the shelves. Who will buy it ten years after. etc. etc. Two completely different and probably non-competing buckets of time & money.