Kinematic and Muscular Assessment of an Active Hand Exoskeleton for Industrial Applications -- A Functional Approach for High Velocity Walk through Programming -- A Safety Oriented Controller for High Velocity Walk Through Programming -- Audio Based Analysis of Child Robot Interactions in the Wild -- Human Aware Motion Planner for Collaborative Transportation of Flexible Materials -- Enhancing Noise Robustness of Speech Based Human Robot Interaction in Industry -- Towards robotization of foraging wild fruits under canopy A multi camera drone borne berry mapping -- PROPHET Preference based OPtimization for Human cEnTric visual inspection -- Unlocking the Potential of Human Robot Synergy under Advanced Industrial Applications The FEROX Simulator -- Towards Explainable Human Motion Prediction in Collaborative Robotics -- Semantic based Loco Manipulation for Human Robot Collaboration in Industrial Environments -- AR solution for indoor drone motion forecasting -- The Critical Role of Effective Communication in Human Robot Collaborative Assembly -- Time optimized Trajectory Planning for Non Prehensile Object Transportation in 3D -- Behavior Tree Based Robotic Skill Execution for Human Robot Collaboration in Industrial settings.

This book collects the scientific contributions presented at the European Robotics Forum (ERF) 2024 that is the reference event for the EuRobotics association. In the months leading up to the forum, a direct call was launched to the many industrial players who are members of EuRobotics and who were asked to specify particularly important areas of development according to their roadmap. The outcome of this survey and the topics of the Workshops held during the forum have been used to calibrate an industry-driven scientific program where research objectives meet industrial needs. The contributions collected in the book cover a wide spectrum of robotics research, encompassing mechatronics, algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Human-Robot Collaboration and many robotic applications.