Analysis of workers’ risks associated with AI and robotic systems: the AGILEHAND project solutions’ developers point of view

AGILEHAND is a Horizon Europe project that seeks to develop cutting-edge technologies for autonomously grading, handling, and packaging soft and deformable products. The project aims to enhance the flexibility, agility, and reconfigurability of production and logistic systems in European manufacturing companies. This project aims to develop solutions in the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics. Workers in AI and robotic systems face various risks that can affect their physical, psychological, and socioeconomic well-being. In this context, some questionnaires have been developed in order to understand the workers’ risks associated with the AGILEHAND solutions. These questionnaires have been filled out by AGILEHAND solutions’ developers in order to collect the designers’ point of view. In conclusion this study has an important role in describing the current AGILEHAND scenario, providing interesting information for both researchers and designers since it defines the main risk factors for successful AGILEHAND implementation and the main problems that designers and practitioners could face. © 2024 Copyright for this paper by its authors.