Collaborative robots

A cobot (or co-robot, from collaborative robot) is a robot intended to physically interact with humans in a shared workspace. With the advent of the fourth industrial revolution, cobots are advancing from being simple stand-alone manipulators passing tools or parts to human collaborators to becoming autonomous co-workers.

However, there is a gap between the desire for humans and robots to work closely together and share control of operations, and how robustly we can measure and predict human motions and intentions in physical human-robot interaction operations.

The overall goal here at TRCM is to foster the development of a novel framework architecture to enable humans and machines working hand in hand within full-inclusive environments by achieving both human-robot and robot-robot collaboration in a robust, safe and secure manner.