Overview
- Addresses the ethical and societal questions raised by the new form of interaction between industrial robots and their social demands in what relates robot architecture and design
- Demonstrates that the industrial robot of the 21st century becomes a new type of social robot
- Presents the state of the art research on a substantial change in the essence and nature of the typical industrial robot
Part of the book series: Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering (ISCA, volume 81)
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About this book
This book aims to discuss the technical and ethical challenges posed by the present technological framework and to highlight the fundamental role played by human-centred design and human factors in the definition of robotic architectures for human–robot collaboration.
The book gives an updated overview of the most recent robotic technology, conceived and designed to collaborate with human beings in industrial working scenarios. The technological development of robotics over the last years and the fast evolution of AI, machine learning and IoT have paved the way for applications that extend far beyond the typical use of robots performing repetitive tasks in exclusive spaces. In this new technological paradigm that is expected to drive the robotics market in the coming years, robots and workers will coexist in the same workplace, sharing not only this lived space, but also the roles and functions inherent to a process of production, merging the benefits of automated and manualperforming. However, having robots cooperating in real time with workers, responding in a physical, psychological and social adequate way, requires a human-centred design that not only calls for high safety standards regulating the quality of human–robot interaction, but also demands the robot's fine-grained perception and awareness of the dynamics of its surrounding environment, namely the behaviours of their human peers—their expected actions/responses—fostering the necessary collaborative efforts towards the accomplishment of the tasks to be executed.Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The 21st Century Industrial Robot: When Tools Become Collaborators
Editors: Maria Isabel Aldinhas Ferreira, Sarah R. Fletcher
Series Title: Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-78513-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Intelligent Technologies and Robotics, Intelligent Technologies and Robotics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-78512-3Published: 26 October 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-78515-4Published: 27 October 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-78513-0Published: 25 October 2021
Series ISSN: 2213-8986
Series E-ISSN: 2213-8994
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 279
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 53 illustrations in colour
Topics: Robotics and Automation, Robotics