Researchers from the Century Mold Collaborative Robotics Laboratory (CMCRL) at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) in New York have recently developed a new framework for monitoring human physiological responses while users are collaborating with a robot to complete a task. Under the supervision of Prof. Ferat Sahin, director of the Multi Agent Bio-Robotics Laboratory, CMCRL researchers are working to develop systems, frameworks and software tools to study human-robot collaboration in an industrial setting. Their new approach, outlined in a paper pre-published on arXiv and set to be presented at the IEEE Systems, Man & Cybernetics conference in Bari (Italy), enables continuously collecting physiological data during human-robot interactions, while changing a robot’s movements to trigger a response in the human with whom it’s interacting.