Path planning plays a crucial role in the navigation of mobile robots. Among the various path planning techniques, Q-learning (QL) has gained popularity as a reinforcement learning approach that exhibits the ability to learn without significant prior knowledge of the environment. However,...

Background: With urban logistics facing challenges such as high delivery volumes and driver shortages, autonomous driving emerges as a promising solution. However, the integration of autonomous vans and robots into existing fulfillment processes and platforms remains largely unexplored. Method:...

This paper analyzes how the impacts of ICT, Software & Databases, and Robots on European regional labor markets (1995–2017) vary across technology life cycle phases. Motivated by theories predicting shifting skill biases between early adoption and maturity, we first identify major...

Entertainment robots, a subset of social robots designed to engage users, constitute a crucial dimension of human-robot interaction. However, current research predominantly focuses on technical advancements, leaving non-technical aspects, such as user experience and emotional engagement,...

This paper investigates the impact of South Korea's rapid robotization, driven by the country's proactive robotization policies, on subjective well-being using individual and householdlevel panel data. We measure individual exposure to robotization by estimating the probability that individuals...