[bradleypowers]

That's not strictly true. The Locus system isn't a Kiva drop-in, it's a next-gen system as well.

[pj_mukh]

Locus seems to be missing the big heavy lifter that Otto has?

[bradleypowers]

They're just targeting different markets. Otto is largely targeting manufacturing, Locus is targeting e-commerce and fulfillment more. The morphology of the robots follows from that.