Many industry sectors have been pursuing the adoption of Industry 4.0 (I4. 0) ideas and
technologies, which promise to realize lean and just-in-time production through digitization …

Objective: The aim of this article is to identify the impact of the Industrial Revolution 4.0 (IR
4.0) on the production processes of goods and services, their ground-breaking changes …

This paper explores the current state and the potential adoption of service automation and
robots by tourist, travel and hospitality companies. Despite the huge advancements in social …

Travel, tourism and hospitality companies have started to adopt robots, artificial intelligence
and service automation (RAISA) in the form of chatbots, delivery robots, robot-concierge …

Ecology has become a central question governing the survival and sustainability of human
societies, cultures and languages. In this timely study, Michael Cronin investigates how the …

Most people in the future will not need to work, at least in the ways in which we continue to
think about work/human labour. In this chapter, we discuss the role of humans in the future …

The Healthcare sector has been at the forefront of the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI)
technologies. Owing to the nature of the services and the vulnerability of a large section of …

In the face of a growing global population, plant breeding is being used as a sustainable tool
for increasing food security. A wide range of high-throughput omics technologies have been …

Introduction Stroke is a major cause of death and disability. Accurately predicting stroke
outcome from a set of predictive variables may identify high-risk patients and guide …

Investigating the relation between artificial intelligence, robots and unemployment on a
panel of 33 OECD countries covering the 2005—2017 period, we find that a 10% increase in …