Stephanie DeMarco Bartlett

Principal Human Factors Engineer | Goddard Product Development

Stephanie DeMarco Bartlett is a Principal Human Factors Engineer at Goddard Product Development with a B.S. in Industrial Design from Wentworth Institute of Technology, where she taught Human Factors in Design, along with certificates in Design Research and User Experience from the Design Community College and Bentley University. She is a passionate HFE consultant specializing in the development and regulatory approval of medical devices, with experience spanning home healthcare combination products, emergency medical services devices, and surgical systems, many of which have received FDA approval. Stephanie leads HFE programs end-to-end, including planning and conducting usability studies and performing heuristic analyses of hardware and software interfaces. She also advises clients on HFE regulatory strategy grounded in deep knowledge of FDA, IEC, and ISO standards.

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May 28, 2026

The trust gap: why human-robot collaboration is the unsolved problem in warehouse automation
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM
Engineering Theater in Expo Hall
Robotics and AI are being deployed across distribution and fulfillment faster than ever, and too often, with little regard for the workers standing next to them. Navigation, grasping, fleet orchestration, and path planning have all matured dramatically. The technology works. The rollout plans sometimes don’t go to plan.
As robots and AI become more embedded in daily work, two things have to happen at once: workers need to adjust how they collaborate with these systems, and developers need to design systems humans can actually trust and work alongside. This session covers both sides.
 
Attendees will leave with a practical framework for assessing autonomy calibration across their workforce, design patterns for interfaces that build appropriate trust, lessons from real deployments where the technology worked but the human-robot interaction didn't, and a shared vocabulary for these conversations with clients, integrators, and internal stakeholders.

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