>Highly constrain your inputs and limit what the robot is supposed to accomplish and you will have an achievable goal. I think this is the key take away. I wor

>Highly constrain your inputs and limit what the robot is supposed to accomplish and you will have an achievable goal. I think this is the key take away. I work in an industrial plant we have a large amount of things that are automated but I would say they are "dumbly automated". For example we have automated cranes. This sounds fancy and sophisticated but the whole system is designed to be as dumb as possible. The Cranes are overhead cranes that run on fixed rails. This immediately limits the degrees of freedom in which crane can move. The whole operation is to pick up object at location A, deposit it at B then travel back to A and repeat. It is always picking up the same objects, with same dimensions/weight etc. The whole thing is designed to be as dumb as possible it does exactly one thing, I imagine if it suddenly had to pick up a different type of object with different dimensions it would require rewrites etc.