Guest Editorial: The Era of Industry 5.0—Technologies from No Recognizable HM Interface to Hearty Touch Personal Products

The aim of this Special Issue is to share the state-of-the-art research and developments on the emerging Industry 5.0 concepts, technologies, use cases and future applications. The outstanding benefits of Industry 5.0 in terms of cost and efficiency facilitate a reality sooner than expected. However, the benefits of Industry 5.0 must not come at a price-any negative social or economic impact must be prevented. To this end, it is beneficial and important that businesses can identify the ethical issues associated with these technologies and find solutions ahead of implementation. Ethically aligned designs and standards must be the backbone of the next Industrial Revolution. Hence, there is a desperate need for the further exploration of the role of Industry 5.0 in all verticals and for the exploitation of computational intelligence. Following a series of rigorous reviews, twelve papers, presenting original research, have been selected for publication in this Section.