Collaborative robots have been trending in research and industry over the last years. They are specially constructed to safely work alongside of humans where contact is possible and sometimes even intended. In this talk, we will have a live presentation of the ABB YuMi Robot to show the capabilities and limits of the current generation of collaborative robots. This will be supported by multimedia from the ROBOTICS lab in Klagenfurt and references to the international state-of-the-art. A special focus is set to applications of collaborative robots outside manufacturing (e.g., intralogistics, medicine).

The aspects of safety and security of robots are especially critical in robotic systems that are working in close proximity to humans. Here, safety denotes the guaranteed absence of physical damage caused by a robot while security means the hardening against cyber-attacks. Both, safety and security must be jointly considered when building collaborative robotic applications. In this talk we will briefly sketch which safety measures can be taken in collaborative robots and how security can be deeply integrated to achieve trustworthy robots.

Responsibility, risk and security are both technical as well as philosophical concepts that play a crucial role in human-robot-interactions. After the first technical presentation in this second talk philosophical conceptualizations of these issues will be presented. The genuine focus is on the question: How is the VDI/FEANI ethics-codex “Fundamentals of Engineering Ethics” (https://www.vdi.de/fileadmin/media/content/hg/17.pdf) concretely applied while using the robot Yumi?