Marco Baumgartner

TL;DR: A comprehensive two-dimensional framework covering three separate phases and four essential components for human-robot working systems is developed and argued for more application-oriented research that focuses on practically relevant factors to guide HRI research, inform cobot development, and support companies in overcoming apparent barriers.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the impact of various technological, organizational and environmental prerequisites for a successful adoption of AI technologies in manufacturing, and found that especially research-intensive, knowledge-based and service-oriented companies tend to roll out AI technologies not only at their domestic but also at their foreign production sites.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated changes in inexperienced factory workers' initial trust induced by linguistic framing in the run-up to an interaction and found that human-like framing of the cobot significantly increases an employee's trust in the robot only when the human-cobot relation is perceived as cooperative.

TL;DR: In this article , the authors present a collection of crucial acceptance factors with regard to collaborative robot use at the industrial workplace, based on these factors, they present a web-based tool to estimate employee acceptance, to provide company representatives with practical recommendations and to stimulate reflection on acceptance issues.

TL;DR: In this paper, an empirical survey of 81 representatives of German industrial companies suggests that this is not just due to barriers in implementing collaborative robots, but also that SMEs seem to systematically underestimate the potential of industrial human-robot interaction solutions.