Challenges and opportunities in human robot collaboration context of Industry 4.0-a state of the art review

AK Inkulu, MVAR Bahubalendruni, A Dara… - Industrial Robot: the …, 2021 - emerald.com
Purpose In the present era of Industry 4.0, the manufacturing automation is moving toward
mass production and mass customization through human–robot collaboration. The purpose …

[PDF][PDF] Exploring Digital Government transformation in the EU

E Barcevičius, G Cibaitė, C Codagnone… - Publications Office of …, 2019 - core.ac.uk
Exploring Digital Government transformation in the EU Page 1 Exploring Digital Government
transformation in the EU Analysis of the state of the art and review of literature Authors: Egidijus …

Service robots in hospitals: new perspectives on niche evolution and technology affordances

T Mettler, M Sprenger, R Winter - European Journal of Information …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Changing demands in society and the limited capabilities of health systems have paved the
way for robots to move out of industrial contexts and enter more human-centered …

Robot acceptance at work: a multilevel analysis based on 27 EU countries

T Turja, A Oksanen - International Journal of Social Robotics, 2019 - Springer
Robots are increasingly being used to assist with various tasks ranging from industrial
manufacturing to welfare services. This study analysed how robot acceptance at work (RAW) …

Classification-design-optimization integrated picking robots: a review

J Xiang, L Wang, L Li, KH Lai, W Cai - Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, 2024 - Springer
Robot technology is considered one of the most promising technologies to achieve
intelligent production, with picking robots being the most common type. Picking robots are …

Cooperative distributed nonlinear model predictive control of a formation of differentially-driven mobile robots

M Rosenfelder, H Ebel, P Eberhard - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2022 - Elsevier
Due to the increasing complexity of today's tasks and the demand for higher performance
and robustness, using a single robot is not always expedient in robotics applications …

Socially assistive robotics: Robot exercise trainer for older adults

A Lotfi, C Langensiepen, SW Yahaya - Technologies, 2018 - mdpi.com
Physical activities have tremendous benefit to older adults. A report from the World Health
Organization has mentioned that lack of physical activity contributed to around 3.2 million …

Design and experimental validation of a distributed cooperative transportation scheme

H Ebel, W Luo, F Yu, Q Tang… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Leveraging explicit communication and cooperation of multiple robots brings about multiple
advantages in the solution of tasks with autonomous robotic agents. For this reason, to the …

[HTML][HTML] Can robots elicit empathy? The effects of social robots' appearance on emotional contagion

W Yang, Y Xie - Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans, 2024 - Elsevier
The increasing integration of robots as service providers or companions in daily life has
prompted extensive research on the emotional aspects of human-robot interaction (HRI) …

Cooperative distributed model predictive formation control of non-holonomic robotic agents

M Rosenfelder, H Ebel… - … Symposium on Multi-Robot …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Due to the ongoing advancements in the field of wireless communication and the increasing
availability of fast and cost-efficient embedded computing units there is a growing number of …