Watch enough promotional footage and you assume these machines are dropped into an existing facility. They are not. The building is rebuilt around them: lighting, floor markings, bin geometry and, above all, human traffic patterns.
The cycle-time truth
On camera, a humanoid moves a tote in about nine seconds. A dedicated gantry does it in three. The humanoid wins only where the task changes daily and a gantry would need reprogramming.
Safety certification, not capability, sets the deployment speed. Every new grip pattern is a new risk assessment.
The footage that surprised us most was the handover: a worker and a robot sharing a station without either one waiting. That took the operator four months to tune.
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