Order picking remains a demanding task in warehouses, and the introduction of collaborative robots (cobots) adds a social dimension to the work. A new arXiv paper examines how trust and fatigue interact when humans and cobots share picking tasks, arguing that both factors must be managed together rather than in isolation.
The paper positions its work within Logistics 5.0, which emphasizes human-robot symbiosis in smart logistics. Its game-theoretic model captures the co-regulation of trust and fatigue, suggesting that the relationship between worker and cobot can be understood as a strategic interaction where each side's state affects the other.
By framing the problem this way, the paper offers a formal approach to designing collaborative systems that account for human factors. The abstract does not present empirical findings, so the contribution is primarily conceptual, but it points toward a more nuanced view of automation in logistics—where trust is not static and fatigue is not merely a physical constraint.