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Is there a way to order a robot (construction or logistic) to a position? I tried using set_command, but it fails because robots are not units. I was wondering if I missed something in LuaEntity to order them around.

Unfortunately there is no easy command to create orders for bots.
For logistic bots you have to create a provider and requester chest, set the requests and they will try to fulfill it.
For construction bots you can:
- order the deconstuction of something (see LuaEntity.order_deconstruction and LuaSurface.deconstruct_area)
- create a ghost entity which they will try to revive
- create a so called "item-request-proxy" entity which makes constuction bots deliver a specific amount of items to this entity

Create entities with LuaSurface.create_entity

There is no way to only include specific robot entities without creating a completely seperate logistic network.