Easy-to-use collaborative robotics solutions, where human workers and robots share their
skills, are entering the market, thus becoming the new frontier in industrial robotics. They …

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 …

Due to a general shift in manufacturing paradigm from mass production towards mass
customization, reconfigurable automation technologies, such as robots, are required …

Offline programming is an intuitive and automatic programming generation technique that
does not use real robotic systems, thus greatly decreasing the downtime required for system …

There has been a rapid increase in the use of collaborative robots in manufacturing
industries within the context of Industry 4.0 and smart factories. The existing human–robot …

Featured Application The results of the work may find application in robot programming.
Abstract The article presents a method of programming robots using virtual reality and digital …

The research reported in this paper proposes a new approach to collaborative robots that
aims at improving the simplicity and efficiency of the programming task for non-technical …

The recent trends in modern industry highlight an increasing use of robots for a wide range
of applications, which span from established manufacturing operations to novel tasks …

Automatic joint motion planning is very important in robotic wheel hub polishing systems.
Higher flexibility is achieved based on the joint configuration with multiple solutions, which …

To enable safe and effective human–robot collaboration (HRC) in smart manufacturing,
seamless integration of sensing, cognition, and prediction into the robot controller is critical …