While recent advances in deep learning have demonstrated its transformative potential, its adoption for real-world manufacturing applications remains limited. We present an Explanation User Interface (XUI) for a state-of-the-art deep learning-based robot program optimizer which provides both naive and expert users with different user experiences depending on their skill level, as well as Explainable AI (XAI) features to facilitate the application of deep learning methods in real-world applications. To evaluate the impact of the XUI on task performance, user satisfaction and cognitive load, we present the results of a preliminary user survey and propose a study design for a large-scale follow-up study.

Deep neural networks and subsymbolic learning have progressed In this paper, we propose that neurosymbolic programming tremendously over the past decade, producing increasingly - a principled combination of symbolic AI and deep learning promising results in the domain of program synthesis and (DL) for program representation, synthesis and optimization robot control [1]. While the use of robots in the manufacturing - can overcome this gap. We describe BANSAI (Bridging industries is ubiquitous, the current degree of industry adoption the AI Adoption Gap via Neurosymbolic AI), an approach for of artificial intelligence-based robot program synthesis and optimization the application of neurosymbolic programming to industrial remains very limited, particularly with regard to deep robotics. To that end, we contribute an analysis of the AI adoption learning (DL) [2]. This reflects a broader phenomenon in the gap, highlighting a mismatch between the requirements manufacturing industry, where artificial intelligence (AI) adoption imposed by the industrial robot programming and deployment lags behind the academic state of the art, with a "lack of process and the exigencies of state-of-the-art AI-based manipulation, substantial evidence of industrial success" at technology readiness program synthesis and optimization approaches.

To enable automatic disassembly of different product types with uncertain conditions and degrees of wear in remanufacturing, agile production systems that can adapt dynamically to changing requirements are needed. Machine learning algorithms can be employed due to their generalization capabilities of learning from various types and variants of products. However, in reality, datasets with a diversity of samples that can be used to train models are difficult to obtain in the initial period. This may cause bad performances when the system tries to adapt to new unseen input data in the future. In order to generate large datasets for different learning purposes, in our project, we present a Blender add-on named MotorFactory to generate customized mesh models of various motor instances. MotorFactory allows to create mesh models which, complemented with additional add-ons, can be further used to create synthetic RGB images, depth images, normal images, segmentation ground truth masks, and 3D point cloud datasets with point-wise semantic labels. The created synthetic datasets may be used for various tasks including motor type classification, object detection for decentralized material transfer tasks, part segmentation for disassembly and handling tasks, or even reinforcement learning-based robotics control or view-planning.