Review article
https://doi.org/10.31306/s.62.2.6
Robotics as part of occupational safety
Gorana Lipnjak
; Hrvatska udruga za zdravo radno mjesto, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Abstract
Artificial intelligence and robotics are increasingly used in the conception of the modern workplace. Workers' health, apart from long-known methods, is increasingly being ensured and upgraded using new technological solutions. Robots based on the so-called poor artificial intelligence have been used in industry for decades, and lately sophisticated advanced robots have been developed that are used in medicine, research, traffic, transportation. In jobs where there is a danger to the health of workers, often occupational safety regulations restrict the implementation of the measures designed to increase productivity. Robots do both, i.e. increase productivity and eliminate imminent danger to the workers. Service robots are used in homes, offices, schools, shops, etc. Social robots are in direct contact with people helping them with their daily work. The paper presents some of the possibilities of using a robot as well as the benefits of robotics, primarily in the function of health and safety at work. Data for the paper were collected from scientific journals, books and various conference proceedings, as well as from lectures held by scientists in the field of robotics development. Certain scientists ask questions about the future of work and life in general, and express concerns about the unknown that await man, society, and the environment. The chief question is whether these new technologies may effect separation, alienation and even intolerance among people.
Keywords
artificial intelligence, robotics, workplace, occupational health and safety
Hrčak ID:
240701
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Publication date:
9.7.2020.
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