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 …

Industrial robots form an integral part of today's manufacturing industry, due to their high
versatility, precision, and fatigue proof nature. Yet, many small and medium sized …

Collaborative robots have lately been extremely relevant to the domain of production and
manufacturing industry after the arrival of Fourth Industrial Revolution or Industry 4.0 (IR 4.0) …

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 …

Admittance control allows a desired dynamic behavior to be reproduced on a non-
backdrivable manipulator and it has been widely used for interaction control and, in …

In this survey paper, we focus on smart interactive technologies and providing a picture of
the current state of the art, exploring the way new discoveries and recent technologies …

In physical human-robot interaction, the coexistence of robots and humans in the same
workspace requires the guarantee of a stable interaction, trying to minimize the effort for the …

Augmented reality is considered one of the enabling technologies of the fourth industrial
revolution, within the Industry 4.0 program and beyond. Indeed, augmented reality solutions …

This paper proposes a novel approach based on affective robotics that can be applied to
industrial applications. Considering a human-robot interaction task, we propose to analyze …

Admittance control is a widely used approach for guaranteeing a compliant behavior of the
robot in physical human-robot interaction. When an admittance-controlled robot is coupled …