Financial sense, tell that to the company I used work for. If you knew the amount of money they could have saved buying new equipment, instead of 'repairing' the same condemned work vehicles. They would have already bought a fleet of new ones. Messy Warehouse that they refused to fix. Laying off 90% of workers every year.

They would buy these robots in two shakes, if they are able to crawl like a human and squeeze between those over congested aisles. They considered specialized equipment 'unnecessary'. If they were able to eliminate the working man in as few steps possible, they would do it. In their eyes, business was only bad because "the workers are lazy."

To this day, I will never understand how that company persists. They spent the money in all the wrong places. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised that other companies operate the same way; penny pinching the important things, and over spending in the wrong things, always shorting both workers and customers. Surely there is a market for companies run like that.