Today's manufacturing systems are becoming increasingly complex, dynamic, and
connected. The factory operations face challenges of highly nonlinear and stochastic activity …

Currently, a large number of industrial robots have been deployed to replace or assist
humans to perform various repetitive and dangerous manufacturing tasks. However, based …

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

This article reviews the state of the art in social eye gaze for human-robot interaction (HRI). It
establishes three categories of gaze research in HRI, defined by differences in goals and …

Physical embodiment is a required component for robots that are structurally coupled with
their real-world environments. However, most socially interactive robots do not need to …

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

Appearance-based gaze estimation has attracted more and more attention because of its
wide range of applications. The use of deep convolutional neural networks has improved the …

Advancements in robotic technology are making it increasingly possible to integrate robots
into the human workspace in order to improve productivity and decrease worker strain …

Effective human-robot collaboration in shared autonomy requires reasoning about the
intentions of the human partner. To provide meaningful assistance, the autonomy has to first …

Robotic vision, otherwise known as computer vision for robots, is a critical process for robots
to collect and interpret detailed information related to human actions, goals, and …