Automation & Robotics

Industrial and collaborative robotics, autonomous systems, manufacturing and domestic automation, personal assistance technologies, robotics safety, human-machine cooperation and human supervision.

Automation is part of humanity’s technological evolution. Machines need not be understood only as replacements for human activity: they can take on repetitive, physically demanding, dangerous and time-consuming work, and give people more room for creativity, education, relationships, leisure and personal autonomy. Technology should support human agency, and people must keep meaningful oversight and responsibility.

1. 01Which tasks should be delegated to machines, and which should remain human by choice?
2. 02How can people supervise autonomous systems in a meaningful way?
3. 03What does safe cooperation between people and robots require?

In collaborative and assistive systems, in the automation of dangerous and repetitive work, and in supervision models that keep responsibility with people.