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Slower than a human making one operation.

Not slower than human stocking items for a whole day.

The tortoise and hare allegory? Slow and steady wins the race.

Surely the robot does not stop at the end of the day.

The article says they plan on it operating continuously for 20 hours at a time.

Until they unionize.

Do robots rely on being ionized? I'd have thought a robot which wasn't ionized would work just fine

You're thinking of "Onionized", when their exploits are covered by one of the world's best publications.

Are you talking about the "Soviet Onion"?