In the context of robotics and automation, learning from demonstration (LfD) is the paradigm
in which robots acquire new skills by learning to imitate an expert. The choice of LfD over …

Robotic equipment has been playing a central role since the proposal of smart
manufacturing. Since the beginning of the first integration of industrial robots into production …

This paper provides an overview of collaborative robotics towards manufacturing
applications. Over the last decade, the market has seen the introduction of a new category of …

Collaborative robots (cobots) have been increasingly adopted in industries to facilitate
human–robot collaboration. Despite this, it is challenging to program cobots for collaborative …

Dexterous manipulation of the robot is an important part of realizing intelligence, but
manipulators can only perform simple tasks such as sorting and packing in a structured …

In this survey, we present the current status on robots performing manipulation tasks that
require varying contact with the environment, such that the robot must either implicitly or …

Industrial robots form an integral part of today's manufacturing industry, due to their high
versatility, precision, and fatigue proof nature. Yet, many small and medium sized …

The application of robots in mechanical assembly increases the efficiency of industrial
production. With the requirements of flexible manufacturing, it has become a research …

As robots interact with a broader range of end-users, end-user robot programming has
helped democratize robot programming by empowering end-users who may not have …

Robots can assist workers in performing physically-demanding construction tasks, which are
typically quasi-repetitive, wherein the geometry of the workspace is dissimilar despite similar …