Abstract
Robotic technology has transformed manufacturing
industry ever since the first industrial robot was put
in use in the beginning of the 60s. The challenge
of developing flexible solutions where production
lines can be quickly re-planned, adapted and structured
for new or slightly changed products is still
an important open problem. Industrial robots today
are still largely preprogrammed for their tasks,
not able to detect errors in their own performance
or to robustly interact with a complex environment
and a human worker. The challenges are even more
serious when it comes to various types of service
robots. Full robot autonomy, including natural interaction,
learning from and with human, safe and
flexible performance for challenging tasks in unstructured
environments will remain out of reach
for the foreseeable future. In the envisioned future
factory setups, home and office environments,
humans and robots will share the same workspace
and perform different object manipulation tasks in
a collaborative manner. We discuss some of the
major challenges of developing such systems and
provide examples of the current state of the art.
Keywords
- Robotics: Robotics
- Robotics: Behavior and Control
- Robotics: Vision and Perception
- Computer Vision: Language and Vision
