Collaborative Robotics: Safety, Applications and Trends
A special issue of Robotics (ISSN 2218-6581).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 August 2025 | Viewed by 373
Special Issue Editor
Interests: applied mechanics; mechatronics; collaborative robotics; vibration control; reliability and prognostics; robotics integration in manufacturing cells
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Dear Colleagues,
Today’s advances in collaborative robotics promise to offer autonomous systems that can work safely with humans and improve our overall working conditions. The field of collaborative robotics is at the forefront of technological innovation, enabling novel applications across diverse sectors, from industries to services. With advancements in automation, artificial intelligence, and safety protocols, COBOTs are redefining efficiency, productivity, and workplace interaction. This motivates researchers, academics, and industry professionals to study, design, and develop novel enabling robotics technologies and methods. The challenge is to transfer the obtained research results and new knowledge to stakeholders, creating a general awareness of the importance of engineering in collaborative robot efficiency, safety and security, machine learning, risk and confidence management, and energy consumption.
This Special Issue aims to collect high-quality research exploring the latest developments, challenges, and opportunities in this field—highlighting the economic and social implications in collaborative robotics.
Dr. Nicola Pellegrini
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- collaborative robot (COBOT)
- energy efficiency in data processing and COBOTs’ usage
- COBOT applications
- safety in challenging industrial environments
- service robot and security implications
- robot and system interaction: human–machine interface
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