Post by Omar Rizwan (@omar@social.omar.website)

Constantly seeing robotics ppl talk about how robot arms are the wrong solution
and you should use a gantry system (like a 3d printer or cc machine) instead 2-2.5 different people have told me this in person + l've seen like 3 different tweets about it
one person was arguing that the use of a robot arm sort of indicates that you haven't rethought your process enough, because you're just
slotting a robot arm in instead of a human

think the examples people were talking about were like, assembling things, doing lab work (pipettes etc), arts and crafts -- rather than having a robot arm pretend to be a person and use your existing lab bench, you could have a fully parallel grid of tubes and have a gantry pipette them all, stuff like that

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