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The scientometric method was applied to quantitatively analyze the relationships between robotics applications in the literature. The keywords \u201crobot\u201d, \u201coccupational safety and health\u201d, and their variants were used to find relevant articles. A total of 137 relevant articles published during 2012\u20132022 were collected from the Scopus database for this analysis. Keyword co-occurrence, cluster, bibliographic coupling, and co-citation analyses were conducted using VOSviewer to determine the major research topics, keywords, co-authorship, and key publications. Robot safety, exoskeletons and work-related musculoskeletal disorders, human\u2013robot collaboration, and monitoring were four popular research topics in the field. 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