Cologne Cobots Lab
How do direct collaboration, problem solving and social processes between humans and machines work? These questions are the focus of research, development and teaching at the Cologne Cobots Lab.
Shaping collaborative robotics as social innovation
From autonomous cars that reduce traffic accidents, to collaborative assembly systems that support older workers or unskilled workers in assembly, to grandparents visiting their grandchildren with the help of telepresence robots, and robotic systems that support elderly and impaired people in coping with everyday life - these technologies are and will increasingly become part of our daily lives and our environment.
The Cologne Cobots Lab at TH Köln is making a contribution to shaping human-machine partnerships in the sense of social innovations.
Research focus
The Cologne Cobots Lab addresses the various dimensions of collaboration between humans and robots.
Collaborative robotics ensures that humans and machines now work hand in hand. The Cologne Cobots Lab is investigating how humans can be ideally supported by robots: How do humans and machines form a unit both technically and socially?
The humanoid robots Pepper and Nao (l.t.r.)
(Image: SoftBank Robotics)
The Cologne Cobots Lab researches sociotechnical systems on different levels, e.g. with regard to the following aspects and questions:
At the micro-level of sociotechnical systems
- Gestalt perception and impact on cooperation and collaboration
- Motivation, volition, stress
- Communication and dialog behavior
- Complexity management/ task design
- Personality and roles
- Team composition, team development, teamwork
- Error culture
Latest from the Lab
Drone tour of our laboratories
(note: Video is only available in German)