Comment by ekidd

"Pick & place" is a term for a kind of robot that can pick up scattered items from a conveyor belt and arrange them in a regular fashion.

The really fast multi-arm versions can be hypnotic to watch. You can see an example at 1:00 in this video: https://youtu.be/aPTd8XDZOEk

The limitation of industrial pick & place robots is that they're configured for a single task, and reconfiguring them for a new product is notoriously expensive.

Magma's "pick & place" demo is much slower and shakier than a specialized industrial robot. But Magma can apparently be adapted to a new task by providing plain English instructions.