Human-Robot Teams: A Review

Research focus for construction robotics and human-robot teams towards resilience in construction: scientometric review

“…Having research areas as the nodes, the visualisation indicated that research interest and focus areas are more concentrated on automation and robot designs, whereas HRTs is an emerging research field. This is supported by Wolf and Stock-Homburg (2020), who identified HRTs as a growing interdisciplinary field. Furthermore, the Gephi visualisation depicting the edges indicates the research interest in HRTs is an offshoot from robotics and other issues surrounding robotics such as safety with robotics, human-machine interface integration, collaborative robots and HRT trust.…”

“…Bugmann et al (2011) assessed the designs of cobots in using sustainable resources, Linner et al (2020) structured the context for collaborative robots using an integrated scenario approach, whereas Liu et al (2021aLiu et al ( , 2021bLiu et al ( , 2021c further evaluated a human-centred collaborative framework that captures the brainwaves of workers using wearable electroencephalograph to study the robot's performance. Wolf (2020) identified HRT types as: Autonomous mixed team, human-/robot-directed mixed team, robot-directed human team and human-directed team. In an autonomous mixed team, collaborative work is executed between robots and humans in a shared space on the same tasks.…”

“…In the human-robot-directed mixed team, workers perform tasks in coordination with robotic partners (Wolf and Stock-Homburg, 2020). A robot-directed human team involves a robot led coordination of tasks, and human-directed teams advocate an individual human worker supervising operations of robots (Wolf and Stock-Homburg, 2020). However, safety issues are central in these forms of collaboration; productivity is the goal and ultimately enables a safe working environment.…”

“…To promote resilient built environment, the study identified existing research clusters and future research areas as: Cluster 1 -Automation in construction: autonomous systems, earthworks, 3D modelling, assembly, fabrication and 3D printing/ additive manufacturing (Bock, 2015;Kasperzyk et al, 2017;Bogue, 2018;Aghimien et al, 2019;Gharbia et al, 2020). Cluster 2 as HRTs with sub-themes: Communication in collaborative teams, human-robot interface designs, perception and adoption factors, object identification, human and workplace factors and trust in robot teams (Wolf and Stock-Homburg, 2020;Reinhardt et al, 2020;Liu et al, 2021aLiu et al, , 2021bLiu et al, , 2021cGonsalves et al, 2021).…”

“…These potential benefits have aroused an increasing level of interest and concerns (Hancock et al, 2011), especially regarding the art of safety and ergonomics (Gualtieri et al, 2021). To improve their contribution towards resilience, procedures to incorporate cobots and robotics in HRTs (Bryan and Mahya, 2021), barriers to their adoption (Mahbub, 2015), trust amongst HRTs (Hancock et al, 2011), their use in the future workplace (Calitz et al, 2017) and social robots in HRTS and HRTs in organisations (Wolf, 2020) are grey areas to build knowledge for effective adoption. Given this level of interest and need for more research advancement in HRTs and robotics, a critical review of the extant literature is imperative to establish the direction of research for successful implementation of HRTs and robotics in the construction jobsite and academic learning (Gualtieri et al, 2021).…”