Open AccessWill robots pick strawberries?
Author(s) -
Robert Sobiecki
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
kwartalnik nauk o przedsiębiorstwie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2719-3276
pISSN - 1896-656X
DOI - 10.5604/01.3001.0012.4724
Subject(s) - robot , subject (documents) , process (computing) , robotics , agriculture , computer science , artificial intelligence , manufacturing engineering , operations research , economics , operations management , simulation , engineering , geography , operating system , world wide web , archaeology
The subject of the essay is a rapidly progressing process of robotization of economies. Poland is one of the countries with high dynamics of introducing robots. This is the effect of increasing labour force deficit and growing labour costs. According to data from the Inter-national Federation of Robotics, between 2011 and 2016 the number of such devices in Poland increased by 20% on a yearly average. Using the example of the process of mecha-nisation in agriculture, the Author demonstrates the problems that robotization can solve, but can also create new ones.