Human-robot collaboration (HRC) is revolutionising the future of manufacturing and service
industries. Ethical research on HRC regards all issues of safeguarding humans from …

In this chapter, we review and expand on the current ethical research on Human–Robot
Collaboration in industrial settings. To date, the ethical issues discussed include: job loss …

Safety plays a key role when implementing collaborative robots (cobots) in human-shared
workspace scenarios. Nevertheless, the significance and understanding of safety-related …

Cooperation and collaboration robots work hand in hand with their human colleagues. This
contribution focuses on the use of these robots in production. The co-robots (to use this …

Traditionally, industrial robots have needed complete segregation from people in
manufacturing environments to mitigate the significant risk of injury posed by their high …

Abstract The field of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) is progressively maturing into a distinct
discipline with its own research practices and traditions. Aiming to support this development …

As a result of significant advances in information and communications technology the
manufacturing industry is facing revolutionary changes whereby production processes will …

As robotics technology forays into our daily lives, research, industry, and government
professionals in the field of human-robot interaction (HRI) in must grapple with significant …

This chapter outlines the main developments of roboethics 9 years after a worldwide debate
on the subject–that is, the applied ethics about ethical, legal, and societal aspects of robotics …

This article focuses on “roboethics” in the age of growing adoption of smart robots, which
can now be seen as a new robotic “species”. As autonomous AI systems, they can …