This paper describes the role and place of collaborative robotics of automation in different human activities in the context of rapid industrial development. Collaboration of humans and robots in close proximity in a single workspace is a stimulating feature of Industry 4.0. To urgent research, issues in the field of modern robotics include problems of developing safer robots in the human-machine interaction systems. Due to the close collaboration between humans and robots, many of the problems of robotics are associated not only with technical issues, but also with social aspects. Optimization and automation of human activities through the introduction of robotic solutions is widely used. In the future it will become the basis of all business processes.