This paper investigates the effect of robot adoption on employment adjustment at the firm level in China. Using an instrument that exploits the source of the firm-level variation in robot adoption, we find that using industrial robots increases employment within firms, especially when focusing...

We analyze the impact of robot adoption on employment composition using novel micro data on robot use of German manufacturing plants linked with social security records and data on job tasks. Our task-based model predicts more favorable employment effects for the least routine-task intensive...

A typical Assembly Line Balancing (ALB) Problem aims to optimize the mass production process by assigning the tasks to stations. To deal with the high product variety and short product life cycles, robots are utilized in many production lines. Humans and collaborative robots share the same...

Rapid product changes and fierce global competition force companies to react quickly to market changes associated with dynamic capacity. This paper investigates how to design and reconfigure configurations of the single-product scalable reconfigurable robotic assembly line (RAL) over multiple...

Nowadays, several industrial companies and distribution centres have even more interest in implementing automated systems for warehousing operations due to new market developments such as e-commerce. Robotized and Automated Warehouse Systems are generally composed of a storage area, with...

Automation is a concept that has been introduced previously in organizations as a way to improve their processes. However, Robotic Process Automation is an emerging way to automate processes with software, which the industry calls robots. These robots perform repetitive and low-complexity tasks...

Rapidly-exploring random tree (RRT), a sampling-based path-planning method, has become a hot research topic in mobile robot path planning due to its ability to find feasible solutions quickly in a given environment. RRT* is a variant of RRT that extended to the problem of finding optimal paths;...

Technological progress may be less beneficial for older workers than younger workers. In this paper, we empirically examine the impact of technological change on the wage share of older workers. More specifically, we look at five different types of technological advancement using data from 30...