Addressing warehouse logistics and order fulfillment in
industrial settings will probably still require substantial scientific
progress. As was outlined above, some of the standard
solutions, such as motion planning or complex hands, were
not necessary to succeed in the first instantiation of the APC.
This may point to the fact that the space of possible solutions
is not fully explored yet and that simple approaches may be
a more promising route for critical applications despite the
importance of providing general-purpose robots. It is possible
that the focus on component technologies, such as 3D object
pose estimation, control, motion planning, grasping, etc., has
not allowed the community to study integrated solutions.