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Physical augmentation of human capabilities for inclusive and socially sustainable manufacturing
General desciption of Physical augmentation of human capabilities for inclusive and socially sustainable manufacturing:
- The demographic evolution reinforces the need to continuously improve the well-being of factory workers and the attractiveness and inclusiveness of manufacturing workplaces. Human-centred developments should also Increase overall factory throughput, energy efficiency, use of resources, etc...
- Physical augmentation should reduce efforts of people to cooperate with machines, reduce human strain and stress through
- advanced mechatronics and robotics allowing for safe, seamless and natural human-machine cooperation and interaction
- augmented reality solutions (including wearables)
- Human augmentation goes beyond technologies , it is about increasing human impact and capabilities addressing organisational and management approaches.
Comment:
Already significant results have been achieved in the field through advanced robotics solutions (high payload collaborative robots, exoskeletons, mobile robots etc). The challenge is to bring them to the final stage so that they can seamlessly work with (and for) humans with minimal efforts (both cognitive and physical) required on the operator side. Maturation of the technologies need to be followed by convincing demonstration of the technologies both in industrial and open pilot environments to achieve wide acceptance at the different organizational levels.