The thing about ROBO and the cost of getting things done on a scale is that people always talk about being smart and very few people talk about working together.
When one person or thing is doing something by itself it is easy or when you have a lot of people or things working together it is like economics.
The real test for systems like ROBO under Fabric Foundation is not if one thing works right if working together is still easy when a lot of things are happening.
Because working together costs something when not many things are happening everything looks okay.
When more things are happening small problems appear such as people wanting different things at the same time.
Not having enough resources.
Waiting for someone to say it is okay.
People disagreeing.
Checking to make sure everything is safe and this takes time.
These are not problems they are just the cost of working together.
In the beginning teams can handle this cost by themselves or they fix the problems they make sure people do not disagree and they change the schedule.
This works until things get too big and there is no extra time.
The real question for ROBO is not if the agents can do things.
It is if the cost of working gets smaller or bigger when more things are happening.
If the cost gets bigger when more things are happening then things do not work well on a scale.
If the cost gets smaller then the system is getting better.
I would look at ROBO.
How long it takes to work together when a lot of things are happening.
Not how long it takes on average. How long it takes when things are really busy.
How often do people or things. Need help.
How often do things get delayed because something else is delayed.
Good systems get better at working over time.
Bad systems get slower and slower.
People care about how much work gets done.
How well the system works when it is stressed is what really matters.
Things do not break when one person or thing, makes a mistake.
They break when working together gets harder than doing the work.
That is where the system really shows its value for ROBO.