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 …

This paper reviews the literature on the emerging digital technologies of Industry 4.0 (I4. 0)
focussed on the applicability of the Internet of Things (IoT), Virtual Reality (VR) and …

Industrial robots working in isolation in a highly automated system are valued for their high
productivity. The shortcomings of these pure robotic cells become more apparent when …

Increasing research attention has been attracted to automatic production processes in small
and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) using collaborative robotic systems. In this work, we …

Collaborative robotics is an umbrella term that conveys the general idea of proximity
between machines and humans for some useful tasks in a shared space, with a range of …

Industrial standards define safety requirements for Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) in
industrial manufacturing. The standards particularly require real-time monitoring and …

Recent research results on human–robot interaction and collaborative robotics are leaving
behind the traditional paradigm of robots living in a separated space inside safety cages …

Aiming at human-robot collaboration in manufacturing, the operator's safety is the primary
issue during the manufacturing operations. This paper presents a deep reinforcement …

Collaborative robots (cobots) are important components of the Industry 4.0 paradigm and
smart manufacturing. Cobots are known for their ability to interact with the operators in a …

Motivated by recent developments to deploy collaborative robots in industrial production
systems, we investigate the assembly line balancing problem with collaborative robots. The …