Industrial Collaborative Robot Design: a Guideline for Future Design Activity

Abstract

This study explores the rapidly expanding Collaborative Robot market and the recent literature in social robotics. An attempt is made to interpret both resources to define macro-parameter trends that could be useful guidelines for robot designing. The market shows a trend towards anthropomorphism in collaborative robot design, though some studies suggest that functionality of robots (not sociality) should always be explicit and evident in their design. An unknown area of convergence between these two trends is hypothesised; here hides the most anthropomorphic design accepted by human collaborators.