You don’t need an mathematically perfect solution to something a heuristic does well enough. I’ve actually done a lot of work involving tracking this kind of processing for industrial companies and it’s not rocket science. Warehouses are basically like giant shelves, and many of those are automated. You don’t even need smart robots to completely automate the task. If you put everything into trays and have shelves that can be remotely loaded/unloaded onto belts that move all the product then you only need people to maintain the machine and electricity to run it… Put objects here, retrieve objects there, increase scale…
