Objectives:

• consideration of perspective-taking, i.e. the ability of robot to estimate what its human partners perceive, processing and reacting in real-time to enable new level of autonomy, navigation, and manipulation;
• ability to compute efficiently affordances for itself and to estimate the affordances of its human partners in a given situation;
• ability to maintain a history of beliefs based on presence and focus of attention of humans which will enable reasoning on divergent beliefs – platform that robots can connect with and that enables data collecting into cloud service;
• replace human factory workers in performing monotonous, repatetive and strain-including jobs in manufacturing and assembly work;
• enabling companies in high-cost countries to reshore parts of their operations previously outsourced, bringing back jobs and/or creating new ones (e.g.: Cobots Technicians/Experts)

Expected results:

• flexibiity in production, reducing in 20% the reconfiguration time and cost;
• relief of employees by  performing ergonomically unfavorable work steps that could not previously be automated;
• 15% reduced risk of injuries and infections;
• high-quality performance of reproducible processes – without requiring type-specific or component-relevant investment;
• increased productivity and improved system complexity thanks to integrated sensors.