My first law of robotics in production environments: 1. In order to effectively deploy real robots to solve real problems, you have to foresee and fix any prob

My first law of robotics in production environments: 1. In order to effectively deploy real robots to solve real problems, you have to foresee and fix any problem that may occur in 99.5% of scenarios. As automation is added in series, the higher that number must be to remain economically effective. My second law of robotics: 2. Robots depreciate, which has tax advantages. Human wages do not. --- Discussion: A realistic scenario is an assembly plant that makes 1,000 widgets per day. Imagine cars, washing machines, etc. Your widget plant has 10 footprints. Any robot stoppage takes at least 5 minutes to clear. With a 99.5% success rate and one robot, you lose 25 minutes a day (1000*0.005 = 5 stoppages ) * 5 minutes. If all 10 footprints have robots with a 99.5% success rate, you lose 250 minutes a day (naive model!). That's over 4 hours. In reality, each station would have manual bypass procedures, or you would go bankrupt.