Hacker News Reader

Well, you can buy a very specialized machine for one task, or but a less efficient machine that could handle very many tasks.

And the latter has (at least in IT, where you had Moore's law) generally won out fairly quickly.

But in industrialised physical space, it has been the former, especially when things scale to produce 1000 objects per minute.

Exactly, if you had a need to job the job atlas is doing, you’d replace it very quickly with a specialised bot with ten hands.

Not saying the bot isn’t useful, just that it seems more of a gimmick than a real need in any serious factory / plant.