Perhaps add the devs option of creating stack bbelts? For instance, right. Though the idea of an enclosed express belt system with higher throughput could also work. You could then have small unloading areas from the main belt for each larger assembly area. The enclosed system also allows for it to...

I think the main issues are Bot access to Logistic chests and the inability of more then four (eight if you combo yellow and red) inserters from accessing a single chest. Bots are simply TOO good at taking and giving items to a chest and inserters are simply too weak. A thousand bots are able to ta...

I think that there have been some interesting suggestions here, but I think everyone has ended up over focussing on the original bot-belt part of the discussion and have thus ended up only finding solutions to the original raised matter with in those constraints alone. Now the real question posed or...