Global Research Trends of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Robots, Intelligent and Automation Systems: A Bibliometric Analysis (2010–2020)

Recent advances in the era of industryIndustry 4.0 are shapingShaping the future of work, in which human factors have been a focal point for today’s human operatorsOperator to collaborate with sophisticated and dynamically changing technologicalTechnological environments. This chapter aims to use a quantitative and visual method to evaluate the history, current and future of publications regarding human factors and ergonomicsErgonomics in human robotHuman–robot interaction, human automationAutomation interaction or artificial intelligent systems from 2010 to 2020. 6890 publications with 88,617 references were taken into investigation by using VOSviewer and CitespaceCitespace. Publication source, authors and citation, country, and co-citationCo-citation of articles were recorded and analyzed. USA dominates the publications (1920, 27.9%) and citations (41,734). Ishiguro (52) is the most productive author. International JournalJournal of SocialSocial RoboticsRobotics published the most papers in this topic. The keywords “human–robot collaborationCollaboration” “collaborativeCollaborative robots” “human workers” “neural network” “artificial intelligence” “human–robot teamsTeams” had the strongest citation bursts, which reflects the research focus in this area and is still attract attentionAttention from academia and industryIndustry. As for researchers and practitioners, this paper suggests an analysis of integrated visualizationVisualizations in terms of the knowledge and innovationInnovation based on the area of human factors and ergonomicErgonomics in human–robot interaction.