Human–autonomous teams on the plant floor

Industrial environments punish brittle handoffs. Noise, PPE, shift changes, and legacy HMIs all shape whether an autonomous teammate feels like support or another alarm source.

Design questions I keep returning to: What does the agent make visible about its intent? How does a worker reclaim control without a modal maze? How do we measure team performance when the “team” spans a person and a machine that never clocks out?

The interesting failures are rarely pure software bugs — they are mismatches between agent pacing and human attention.