The Occupational Impact of Cybernetic Avatars on the Japanese Labor Market
摘要
Cybernetic avatars (CAs) are robotic embodiments remotely controlled by human operators, offering new possibilities in telepresence, healthcare, and hazardous environments. We use a data-driven approach to estimate the occupational impact of CAs in the Japanese labor market. Inspired by previous work in labor economics, we used occupational task descriptions and a large number of patents and calculated the overlap between the texts to estimate the occupational impact on the tasks, which are then aggregated into the occupational level as CA exposure scores.