The RoboLAB experience: aims, challenges and results of a joint academia-industry lab of industrial robotics

The paper illustrates the research activity of a joint research laboratory, established by COMAU and Politecnico di Torino, named "RoboLAB", and devoted to industrial robotics issues. The lab facilitates a stable cooperation between the academic and industrial partners, leading to satisfying results both from the scientific and the technological point of view. The paper illustrates in particular the most relevant results of the research activity carried out to make the industrial robots safe machines for themselves and for people working with them, dealing with collision detection and avoidance, and with solutions allowing robots to safely share spaces with humans.