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Okay, it seems to be definitely related to other bots blocking their way:
I've now got a setup where he skipped the step of actually walking to the furnace and jumped straight to trying to insert the item!
http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=72337184487671410134

It seems to be in the interactions with other bots (i.e. them standing in the way, I guess), as this does not happen when I put him into his own little area with nothing but the two required storages, the furnace and fences all around...
Will try to find a minimal setup where the problem occurs.

(Also, I can now confirm that bots that are unreachable for the recharge bots get charged remotely^^)

Sure thing:
http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=06172969144112492196
(Didn't find a way to attach files here and you haven't listed an email I could find)
The bot in question is Dave, right above the player.

I actually use repeat until not full to tie lumber production to both log and seed storage by putting two empty until not full in the main loop. If I were to nest until full loops, it would only ever check the innermost, so I could only control the amountof one item, not both.

v5

There seems to be a bug where bots sometimes skip or repeat items in their to-do-lists and then get stuck when they can't complete the next ones.

This is most notable for me with a bot that I have set to make metal:
repeat:
    go to ore storage
    take ore
    go to furnace
    place item
    go to charcoal storage
    take charcoal
    go to furnace
    place item
end repeat
I often come by and he sits there, trying to put another ore into the furnace when in fact it would require only charcoal.This bot is the only one who accesses the furnace (no other bot and I don't use it manually).

The same thing happened when I tried to have bots first produce, then store wares (bring two logs to a furnace, then bring the charcoal to storage/ cut up a log and bring the planks to storage/ ...) - they just seem to jump around in their instructions sometimes. These ones I managed to fix by strictly restricting bots to one task (one bot puts logs into the furnace, the other takes the charcoal away), but that seems uneconomic and doesn't work well for smelting metal as the two bots who want to put in coal and ore often block each other.

So far I have not been able to observe this happening on-screen, so I can't pinpoint any possible reasons (i.e. running out of juice mid-action or being blocked by another bot traversing their target or something), but I'll keep an eye out.

So as far as I understand it, to get fertilizer I need to collect the cow droppings after they eat the tall grass. Problem is: They jsut stand in the grass with an exclamation mark above their heads instead of eating it.
Picking them up and moving them or cutting the grass and letting it regrow doesn't change anything :/
I'm on v5.