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Original Research

The Impacts of Human-Cobot Collaboration on Perceived Cognitive Load and Usability during an Industrial Task: An Exploratory Experiment

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Pages 83-90 | Received 11 Oct 2021, Accepted 26 Apr 2022, Published online: 12 May 2022

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