The use of human robot collaboration is often put forward as a key future enabler in manufacturing combining the skills and capabilities of both to provide optimal automation solutions. However, the reality is proving to be very different, lack of understanding, fear, mistrust and technical limitations among other barriers mean that very few truly collaborative systems exist in industry. Why is this and what should we be doing to unlock this potential, game changing approach to manufacturing? This panel will seek to try and answer some of the outstanding questions and open a debate on how to progress this in the future.