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

Contemporary manufacturing must prioritise the sustainability of its manufacturing processes
and systems. Zero Defect Manufacturing (ZDM) focusses on minimising waste of any kind …

Augmented Reality (AR) is an augmented depiction of reality formed by overlaying digital
information on an image of objects being seen through a device. Artificial Intelligence (AI) …

This paper contributes to a taxonomy of augmented reality and robotics based on a survey of
460 research papers. Augmented and mixed reality (AR/MR) have emerged as a new way to …

Nowadays, considering the constant changes in customers' demands, manufacturing
systems tend to move more and more towards customization while ensuring the expected …

Digital twin can be defined as a virtual representation of a physical asset enabled through
data and simulators for real-time prediction, optimization, monitoring, controlling, and …

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

Augmented reality (AR) has proven to be an invaluable interactive medium to reduce
cognitive load by bridging the gap between the task-at-hand and relevant information by …

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

Recent technological advances in hardware design of the robotic platforms enabled the
implementation of various control modalities for improved interactions with humans and …