Human–Robot Collaboration in Industry 5.0
A special issue of Robotics (ISSN 2218-6581). This special issue belongs to the section "Industrial Robots and Automation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2026 | Viewed by 118
Special Issue Editor
Interests: industrial robotics; metal additive manufacturing; machine learning; human–robot collaboration
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Industry is moving towards new models of human–machine interaction, where workers are put at the center of an ecosystem that supports them in achieving both productivity and wellbeing, rather than being overwhelmed by technology. In this framework, called Industry 5.0, the new generation of robots must be able to truly collaborate with workers, thanks to safe, natural, and ultimately ethical interactions.
We are pleased to invite you to submit an article to this Special Issue, which is aimed at promoting actual developments in human–robot collaboration (HRC) and their main applications in industrial settings, where safety, trust, but also efficiency have paramount importance.
The Special Issue aims to collect relevant contributions about key topics in HRC, including but not limited to the following: safe shared-space interaction, learning by demonstration, natural language-based control, behavior programming and adaptation, affective computing, HRC experience evaluation, ethics in AI, edge computing, and HRC applications.
Dr. Stefano Baraldo
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- human–robot collaboration
- affective computing
- learning by demonstration
- natural language processing
- deliberation
- behavior adaptation
- AI ethics
- industrial applications
- voice interaction
- computer vision
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