Montobbio, Fabio; Staccioli, Jacopo; Virgillito, Maria … - 2020
This paper investigates the presence of explicit labour-saving heuristics within robotic patents. It analyses … technological fields particularly exposed to labour-saving innovations. It exploits advanced natural language processing and … producers, but also adopters. Consequently, labour-saving robotic patents appear along the entire supply chain. The paper shows …