Abstract Human–Robot Collaboration (HRC) has a pivotal role in smart manufacturing for
strict requirements of human-centricity, sustainability, and resilience. However, existing HRC …

Abstract Since the first Industrial Revolution the trends in manufacturing have evolved a lot,
from mechanical production to the era of smart manufacturing via technologies like Cyber …

Smart manufacturing and smart factories depend on automation and robotics, whereas
human–robot collaboration (HRC) contributes to increasing the effectiveness and …

In previous scholarly literature, safety is understood as a main obstacle for introducing
human–robot collaboration in industrial production. This interdisciplinary paper is concerned …

Policymakers need to consider the impacts that robots and artificial intelligence (AI)
technologies have on humans beyond physical safety. Traditionally, the definition of safety …

Background Meat is one of the main sources of protein in human nutrition. During recent
years meat production volume has been showing significant growth worldwide. The total …

Despite the ergonomic challenges that large-sized product assemblies underlay for human
operators, related processes are deselected from hybrid automation mostly due to the …

Robotic solutions, in particular robotic arms, are becoming more frequently deployed for
close collaboration with humans, for example in manufacturing or domestic care …

The requirements of modern production systems together with more advanced robotic
technologies have fostered the integration of teams comprising humans and autonomous …

As robots are progressing towards being ubiquitous and an indispensable part of our
everyday environments, such as home, offices, healthcare, education, and manufacturing …