Special Issue on the IEEE ARSO 2023 Conference: Human Factors in Construction Robotics

Dr. Jason Rambach, coordinator of the EU Horizon Project HumanTech co-organized a special session on “Human Factors in Construction Robotics” at the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts (ARSO 2023) in Berlin, Germany (5.6-7.6). The organization of the special session was done by Jason Rambach, Gabor Sziebig, Research Manager at SINTEF, and Mihoko Niitsuma, Professor at Chuo University.

The program of the special session included the following talks:

Serena Ivaldi (INRIA) – Teleoperating a robot for removing asbestos tiles on roofs: Insights from a pilot study
Jason Rambach (DFKI) – Machine perception for human-robot handover scenarios in construction
Patricia Helen Rosen (BAUA) – Design recommendations for construction robots – a human-centred perspective
Dimitrios Giakoumis (CERTH ITI) – Designing human-robot interaction interfaces for shotcrete construction robots; the RobetArme project case