The manufacturing industry is one of the major employers on a global scale and the increasing population of robots has the potential to influence the number of human jobs. The effect of robotization has been analyzed from the industrial, social and economic perspectives. Several economic models have been developed to explain the conditions for human substitutions. In this paper we propose the adoption of the predator-prey framework and find it suggestive that the behavior of two populations apparently competing but surely cooperating in view of a common goal may be roughly assimilated to the biological interplay among natural species that was nicely introduced by Lotka and Volterra ninety years ago.
The competition between robots and humans: A predator-prey interpretation for the manufacturing industry
Diego Liberati;
2017
Abstract
The manufacturing industry is one of the major employers on a global scale and the increasing population of robots has the potential to influence the number of human jobs. The effect of robotization has been analyzed from the industrial, social and economic perspectives. Several economic models have been developed to explain the conditions for human substitutions. In this paper we propose the adoption of the predator-prey framework and find it suggestive that the behavior of two populations apparently competing but surely cooperating in view of a common goal may be roughly assimilated to the biological interplay among natural species that was nicely introduced by Lotka and Volterra ninety years ago.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
