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Current industrial robots are optimized to “economy of scale” while new business models demand customization, individualization and service-orientation. The next generation of robotic workers will have to cope with more complex tasks, rapidly adapt to new situations and provide high flexibility. Additionally demographic change requires a paradigm shift to put the human workforce in the Center of a production system. The LOCOBOT project proposes a toolkit for building customized low cost robot co-workers for a broad spectrum of scenarios. The system approach envisaged keeps the human worker in the loop. So far the approach is user centred design.
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Pichler, A. et al. (2013). Tailor Made Robot Co Workers Based on a Plug&Produce Framework. In: Neto, P., Moreira, A.P. (eds) Robotics in Smart Manufacturing. WRSM 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 371. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39223-8_11
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