Human–Robot Coordination and Collaboration in Industry 4.0

The workplace is transformed by various robots, making it mandatory for human employees to collaborate and coordinate with robots to achieve work performance. These robots drive intelligent solutions towards achieving operational efficiency in business. These robots are leveraged with advanced technology such as natural language processing, Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, Machine Learning, The Internet of Things, and Augmented Reality. It has become imperative for humans to collaborate and coordinate with robots to achieve performance and avoid errors. The chapter studies the literature to understand human–robot coordination and collaboration factors. In conclusion, we provide a framework that discusses the drivers of human–robot collaboration such as perceived benefits, entertainment factor, safety, automation of repetitive tasks anthropomorphism. Also, there are barriers such as potential risk, cost factor, contextual barrier, knowledge barrier, passing the uncanny value point.