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Purpose – The paper aims to describe the design and manufacturing process of a tele‐operative urban search and rescue tracked robot and discuss the advantages of a proposed novel track arrangement and other additional mechanisms, which help the robot to gain high manoeuverability on rough...
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environment. The damage site cannot be actively entered but must be inspected from a safe distance. In this context, mobile robots …
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summarizing emergency response by robots to the Fukushima‐Daiichi accident. Findings – Many lessons had been learned from the … experiences on robots' emergency response to the accident; organization and operation scheme, and systemization were major lessons … learned. Practical implications – Unmanned constructive heavy machines and robots donated from the USA or imported from Sweden …
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We develop a macroeconomic theory of the division of household tasks between servants and own work and how it is affected by automation in households and firms. We calibrate the model for the U.S. and apply it to explain the historical development of household time use and the distribution of...
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. The traditional sector produces with labor and capital, whereas the modern sector employs robots instead of labor. We find … that little can prevent the ascent of a modern economy. In particular, whilst robots are perfect substitutes to labor in … produces robots using the homogeneous output good. We find that wages fall with a relative increase in productivity in the …
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We study the effects of robot exposure on worker flows in 16 European countries. Overall, we find small negative effects on job separations and small positive effects on job findings. Labour costs are shown to be a major driver of cross-country differences: in countries with lower labour costs,...
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