Human-robot collaboration (HRC) is a widely studied research topic that investigates how humans and robots can work together and achieve a common goal. Over the past few years, HRC has created exciting new applications for robots that can revolutionize manufacturing and introduce them to entirely different domains such as healthcare and agriculture. It is an interdisciplinary research area comprising robotics, artificial intelligence, design and cognitive sciences.

• Chapter 1: Introduction to human-robot collaboration for industrial applications
• Chapter 2: Programming industrial robots from few demonstrations
• Chapter 3: A control framework for learning and performing safe human-robot collaborative assembly
• Chapter 4: Dynamic active constraints construction for enabling human safety during human-robot collaboration
• Chapter 5: Time-to-contact for robot safety stop in close collaborative tasks
• Chapter 6: A human-centered dynamic task scheduling and safe task execution approach for human-robot collaboration scenarios
• Chapter 7: Tactile sensing for physical human-robot interaction in shared payload tasks
• Chapter 8: Online cooperative task execution through human motion capture databases
• Chapter 9: Versatile automation of dense packing with teaching by demonstration and 3D vision
• Chapter 10: Apprentice: advances toward the development of a cobot helper in assembly lines
• Chapter 11: Wrap up and open research directions