A vital part of the corporate strength of any organization is the ability to respond to changing market needs rapidly, and effectively. Time-to-market has become a crucial measure of an organization’s business performance. Increasing demands for accelerated deliveries at a lower cost has put pressures on projects and processes within most industries. Therefore, with increasing competition, comp...

a r t i c l e i n f o Unlike robotics in the manufacturing industry, on-site construction robotics has to consider and address two unique challenges: 1) the rugged, evolving, and unstructured environment of typical work sites; and 2) the reversed spatial relationship between the product and the manipulator, i.e., the manipulator has to travel to and localize itself at the work face, rather than...

Knowledge and IT inputs to other industrial production have become more important as a key factor for the competitiveness of national and regional economies, such as knowledge economies in smart cities. Knowledge and IT industries lead the industrial innovation and technical (r)evolution through low cost, high efficiency in production, and by creating a new value chain and new production path c...