Brynjolfsson, Erik; Buffington, Catherine; Goldschlag, … - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle - 2023
We use data from the Annual Survey of Manufactures to study the characteristics and geography of investments in robots … across U.S. manufacturing establishments. We find that robotics adoption and robot intensity (the number of robots per … report having robotics. The distribution of robots is highly skewed across establishments’ locations. Some locations, which …