Collaborating robots

Introduction

The use of collaborative robots, (cobots), is steadily increasing across the manufacturing sector, enabling people and robots to work alongside each other. Cobots do not operate in isolation, but as part of a broader collaborative application that refers to the entire system in which humans and robots interact. By combining human adaptibility and dexterity with the precision, strength and speed of the robot, production can become more efficient  while reducing the workload of the workers. On the other hand data from EU-OSHA’s OSH Pulse survey suggest that the use of cobots is associated with heightened work intensity, reduced autonomy, increased…