This is neat research.  Probably not very practical or useful in it&#x27;s current form, yet, you have to engage in highly speculative research and even consider the ridiculous to discover new ideas.<p>This version is unlikely to be able to compete in almost any metric with robot arms or even far simpler purpose-built machines (think simple 1 DOF automation used in manufacturing assembly lines, like bottling plants).  With time interesting and unique applications of some future version of this might find a problem it can solve elegantly.