Human Robot Forum - a reviewWhere does human-robot cooperation stand?
Cooperation or collaboration between humans and robots - HRC for short - is currently a hype topic. But how can it be implemented economically? The first 'Human Robot Forum' in Stuttgart provided answers to this question.
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Prof. Dr. Bernd Kuhlenkötter, Head of the Chair of Production Systems at the Ruhr University Bochum and responsible for strategic research and development at ABB Robotics: "An interesting field of application for HRC is assembly - in view of ever smaller production batches, 'hard' automation is becoming less and less worthwhile here."