Despite their contributions to the financial efficiency and environmental sustainability of
industrial processes, robotic assembly and disassembly have been understudied in the …

Automation modifies workplaces, tools, and production activities, leading to new modalities
of human-machine interaction. Traditionally, the allocation of functions in automated systems …

Many companies, despite there being opportunities for automation in production and
logistics (P&L) systems, still rely on human workers due to their cognitive and motor skills …

Implementing an industrial collaborative robot for Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) in the
automotive manufacturing industry is an emerging technology-driven solution aiming to …

Last year's developments are characterized by a dramatic drop in customer demand leading
to stiff competition and more challenges that each enterprise needs to cope with in a …

In recent years, the manufacturing industry has witnessed the utilization of Augmented
Reality (AR) technologies in their daily operations. This paper takes a deep dive into the …

The future of collaborative robots (cobots) is shaped by the desire for a flexible and
beneficial cooperation between humans and cobots. We reviewed the state of the art …

Hybrid assembly systems combine the advantages of automated assembly solutions with
the cognitive abilities of humans to make assembly more flexible while efficient. Adaptive …

As a result of an increasingly automatized and digitized industry, processes are becoming
more complex. Augmented Reality has shown considerable potential in assisting workers …

Since the rise of the first collaborative robots, short cobots, in the 90s, there were really high
expectations, that those robots will change working situations of whole industries …