Maybe the logistics buffer chests as described in Factorio Friday Facts #203 will solve (most of) these issues?

Thanks for replying! Buffer chests are an almost necessary extension to the system; however, I don't think they solve the issue with drop-off. The problem is that construction bots (and ...

TL;DR: The vanilla bot item dropoff algorithm is frustratingly inefficient (trashing and deconstruction); robots travel across large bases for minutes, instead of picking close chests in a matter of seconds, making bot operations very inefficient - unnecessarily so. Can the algorithm for item ...