This paper investigates the effect of robot adoption on employment adjustment in China. By using detailed Chinese firm-level data and addressing endogeneity, we find that using industrial robots increases employment within firms, especially when focusing on the employment of high-educated and...

This paper presents a mini-review on our previous work presented in ref. [1-6] in which the neural networks (NNs) were used for estimating and then detecting the robot’s collisions with the human operator during the cooperation task. This review investigates and compares the designed NN...

The idea of taxing robots was popularized in 2017 by Bill Gates on the grounds that robots would “steal” humans’ jobs and therefore should collect taxes to fund education and training programs. The theme gained repercussion in the academic environment, fostering multidisciplinary debates...

Artificial intelligence (AI) and robotics applications have proliferated primarily in the industrial sphere, and social scientific studies emphasized robots’ functionality and appropriateness for certain roles, especially those related to work and most particularly to robots replacing...

This chapter analyzes structural changes arising from both economy‐wide and life-course- long applications of mobile communication technology. These changes trickle through all sectors of society, including the domestic sphere, which arguably has been most profoundly affected by it. We discuss...

This study explores the relationship between the adoption of industrial robots and workplace injuries. Using establishment-level data on injuries, we find that a one standard deviation increase in our commuting zone-level measure of robot exposure reduces work-related annual injury rates by...