Collaborative Robotics and Workforce Transformation: Designing Intelligent Mechanical Systems for Industry 5.0

Abstract

Industry 5.0 has initiated a paradigm shift to the manufacturing and industrial activities through a focus on workforce-machine synergy, personalization, and sustainability. At the center of such change is the emergence of collaborative robotics (cobots), or the intelligent robots that are intended to complement the efforts of the human operator involved to increase output, safety, and flexibility. The given paper explores how collaborative robotics and restructuring industrial workforces are a transformative factor and the potential of design of intelligent mechanical systems to fit ideals of Industry 5.0. The paper will review the literature, use of empirical data, and systems modelling to assess the potential of cobots to complement humans by enhancing functionality, in real-time decision making, and offer safer working conditions and ergonomic working conditions. The results indicate that effective implementation of cobots cannot only depend on technological breakthroughs, as they also involve organization stability, reskilling, and ethical knowledge as fundamental factors. This study can be regarded as an addition to the activities in reengineering the future of work by offering a methodological approach to building intelligent systems that would balance between efficiency and a human-centered agenda.