  There is incremental growth in adopting self-reconfigurable robots in
automating manufacturing conventional product lines. Using this class of robots
adapting themselves with ever-changing environmental conditions has been
acclaimed as a promising way of reducing energy consumption and environmental
impact and thus enabling green manufacturing. Whilst the majority of existing
research focuses on highlighting the efficacy of self-reconfigurable robots in
energy reduction with technical driven solutions, the research on exploring the
salient factors in design and development self-reconfigurable robots that
directly enable or hinder green manufacturing is non-extant. This
interdisciplinary research contributes to the nascent body of the knowledge by
empirical investigation of design-time, run-time, and hardware aspects which
should be contingently balanced when developing green-aware self-reconfigurable
robots.
  Keywords Green manufacturing, self-reconfigurable robots, robot design, green
awareness
