I work in the automotive sector. Not interested in human-robot collaboration at all, I was wondering whether this would be a suitable alternative to PLC control of spot welding and handling industrial robots. Even though the processing power of these things is likely to be better than that of a PLC, am I right in thinking that the overhead involved with running a proper (albeit fairly stripped down) OS would make it slower than a dedicated PLC? Obviously it has its place (and my curiosity is most definitely peaked) but controls hardware costs pale into insignificance compared to the capital costs of everything else in a car plant, so we'd need a pretty compelling case to switch.