Rate My Professor Niels Lohse

His research focuses on intelligent automation, robotics, and AI applications in assembly, disassembly, and joining; human-robot collaboration; measurement and perception; manufacturing system modelling; distributed control; and self-organising systems. These efforts aim to boost production system productivity and responsiveness while enhancing human wellbeing and sustainability. As Principal Investigator, he directs projects including the Co-AIMS Research Hub on Collaborative AI for Manufacturing Sustainability (2025–2032), the CHARISM Japan-UK Centre for Human-Oriented AI and Robotics in Inclusive and Sustainable Manufacturing (2026–2030), and Industrial Robots-as-a-Service (IRaaS) for resilient manufacturing (2024–2026). Notable publications encompass "Dual Control for Active Estimation and Path Planning in the Automation of Robotic Assembly Tasks" (IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2026), "Exploring tasks and challenges in human-robot collaborative systems: A review" (Robotics and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, 2026), "Realising human-robot collaboration in manufacturing? A journey towards industry 5.0 amid organisational paradoxical tensions" (Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2025), and "An investigation into minimising total energy consumption and total weighted tardiness in job shops" (2014, highly cited). Lohse has earned best paper awards at IEEE IECON 2013, ICMR 2021, and TAROS 2023, and serves on the EPSRC Strategic Advisory Team for Manufacturing and the Circular Economy since 2022.