Cobots play an essential role in the fourth industrial revolution and the automation of
complex manufacturing processes. However, cobots still face challenges in achieving high …

Industry 4.0 stresses the importance of considering production automation as an integrated
and collaborative teamwork process between human workers and intelligent machines and …

(1) Background: Conventional shoe manufacturing involves many processes that most
workers avoid because of loud noises and harmful environments. Therefore, a robot-based …

In the footwear sector, automation is often performed by robotic arms due to the inherent
adaptive requirements of some of its tasks. With the Industry 4.0 revolution, automation is …

Obstacle avoidance is one of the basic, but computationally, costly issues of robotic science.
In this paper, a safety ring around the work piece was defined, so that since the wrist of the …

In recent years, robotics emerged as a leading contender in many applications. Most of the
applications employed multiple mobile robot to accomplish parallel tasks efficiently. In most …

Collaborative robotics is a key pillar of the smart factory of the future making production
systems more flexible and responsive. To this aim, the research communities have made …

This paper presents a real-life example of using industrial robots to automate the testing
procedures of aerospace products. Three different scenarios are proposed as potential …