[ragebol]

I think what your parent comment means is summarized by something said by, i think Colin Angle (iRobot CEO), about iRobot: "to become successful, we had to become a vacuum cleaning company, instead of a robotics company".

Nobody cares about what's inside the black box you are selling, as long as it solves your problem. Doesn't matter if that is vacuum cleaning with either a robot or a human, getting stuff from a to b with either a compliant arm with fancy computer vision or a human or custom, inflexible automation.

I'm currently in a robotics company, we make various mobile manipulators with some internal storage. Got acquired by, of course, a logistics company a couple years ago to be part of their overall solutions.