One goal of Industry 4.0 is flexible manufacturing which requires fenceless co-existence of humans and robots in same work spaces, i.e. human-robot collaboration. Still, sharp edged tools and objects ...

Cooperation between humans and robots, as well as safe coexistence, are an important research focus in the Factory of the Future at the Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics. As the intelligence of ...

Collaborative robots (cobots), a type of lightweight and slow-moving robot designed to work next to human operators without a physical fence, have gained significant momentum thanks to their ...

In my grandfather's jewelry workshop, I witnessed the toll of repetitive tasks on human creativity—a challenge that inspired me to reimagine workplace dynamics through humanoid robotics that ...