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Study Aims at Improving Collaboration Between People and Robots on Assembly Lines

November 25, 2013

BERLIN—The Fraunhofer Institute for Production Technology and Automation has begun a project aimed at developing a standard software framework for assembly systems that combine people and robots. MORE

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