The inserters in Factorio looks a little like industrial inserters but is not that versatile. Instead the magic happens inside the black boxes called assemblers. Could we make something like industrial robots that assemble things in Factorio?
Can we have like one robot that places 1 gear + 2 pipes + 1 steel pipe and a welding robot that somehow weld them together and we have an engine? Should it have to be done in a special order, placed in a special pattern, should the robots be programmable so one robot could place different things in different places.
Don' t really know if it could work or how it should work, someone smarter could maybe figure it out and implement something.
Industrial robot (loose idea)
Re: Industrial robot (loose idea)
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