Collaborative robot arms (cobots) are gaining a strong foothold in contemporary manufacturing workplaces. While more information about the cobot’s impact becomes available, crucial design, work perception, performance, and strategic implications are systematically overlooked. Following a modern sociotechnical systems …

Dit rapport bevat de inhoudelijke eindrapportage van de uitgevoerde werkzaamheden binnen het TechForFuture project “Cobots in de Kunststofindustrie 2” (CoKu2) en “Cobots in de Pro-ductie 2” (CoP2) en werkt voort op het voorafgaande project “Cobots in de kunststofindustrie” (CoKu).

The number of applications in which industrial robots share their working environment with people is increasing. Robots appropriate for such applications are equipped with safety systems according to ISO/TS 15066:2016 and are often referred to as collaborative robots (cobots). Due to the nature of human-robot …

Now that collaborative robots are becoming more widespread in industry, the question arises how we can make them better co-workers and team members. Team members cooperate and collaborate to attain common goals. Consequently they provide and receive information, often non-linguistic, necessary to accomplish …