Modern manufacturing systems require increased levels of automation for fast and low-cost
production, but also high levels of flexibility and adaptability to dynamic production …

Nowadays, robots are used extensively in manufacturing sectors because they improve
quality and efficiency of production processes. Robots can perform various tasks …

Purpose Recent years have seen a technological change, Industry 4.0, in the manufacturing
industry. Human–robot cooperation, a new application, is increasing and facilitating …

Social sciences are becoming increasingly important for robotics research as work goes on
to enable service robots to interact with inexperienced users. This endeavor can only be …

Nowadays, in order to cover the needs of market for product mass customization, industries
have started to move to hybrid production cells, involving both robots and human operators …

Recent research results on human–robot interaction and collaborative robotics are leaving
behind the traditional paradigm of robots living in a separated space inside safety cages …

In previous scholarly literature, safety is understood as a main obstacle for introducing
human–robot collaboration in industrial production. This interdisciplinary paper is concerned …

The potential of collaborative robotics often does not materialize in an efficient design of the
human-robot collaboration. Technology-oriented approaches are no longer enough in the …

This paper aims to present a digital twin framework to support the design, build and control
of human-machine cooperation. In this study, computer simulations are used to develop a …

Collaborative robot's lead-through is a key feature towards human–robot collaborative
manufacturing. The lead-through feature can release human operators from debugging …