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Robot Arm

robot-arm
Category
Placeable
Subtype
furniture
Official description

A mechanical helping hand, grabs things and puts them elsewhere when powered by electricity. Filtering can be enabled to only handle matching items.

Overview

The Robot Arm is a mechanism that automatically moves dropped items from one side of the arm to the other when it is powered. If a storage item with enough available space is placed on the receiving side, the transferred items are deposited into it instead of remaining on the ground.

This makes the Robot Arm useful for automating item collection and sorting, especially in setups where resources are produced continuously. It can be placed to move items off a Conveyor Belt and into a storage item, allowing farms, drills, and other automated production lines to feed directly into storage without manual pickup.

  • The arm only works while powered.
  • It moves dropped items from one side to the opposite side.
  • A storage item on the destination side must have sufficient space for the items to be deposited.
  • It is especially useful for handling resources from enemy farms or drills.
  • It can be used as part of a simple automated transfer system between a Conveyor Belt and storage.

Official description

A mechanical helping hand, grabs things and puts them elsewhere when powered by electricity. Filtering can be enabled to only handle matching items.

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