Objectives

Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC) can bring a new level of flexibility and efficiency to the industry. From robots that execute tasks while sharing their workspace with humans to robots that accomplish a task while physically interacting with humans. Although safety has always played a central role in the design of robotic systems, when humans and robots work more closely together, safety becomes increasingly important.

Researchers from academia and industry have been approaching the safety problem from many diverse perspectives. From improving the feeling of safety and comfort of the human by making the robot's intents easier to interpret to guaranteeing safety by enforcing constraints. New hardware and algorithms are shaping the HRC research landscape with collision sensors, soft robotic structures, haptics, data-driven approaches, and theoretical safety certificates. However, to implement these new technologies in the industry, they have to meet the current ISO standards.

This workshop aims to bring together roboticists from academia as well as from industry to share their latest developments and vision on safe HRC and on how to adopt it in the real world.

Endorsed by

• IEEE-RAS Technical Committee for Human-Robot Interaction & Coordination

• IEEE-RAS Technical Committee for Robot Learning