Experimental data on the presence of robots, workers exposed to robots, capital expenditures for industrial robotic equipment, and plant size distributional statistics from the 2019 Annual Survey of Manufactures (ASM) with revisions to the 2018 experimental data product.

Robotic equipment expenditures in 2020 totaled $9,853 million and accounted for 1.0 percent of total equipment expenditures.

Robotic equipment expenditures totaled $7,524 million and accounted for 0.7% of total equipment expenditures in 2019.

Experimental data on share of plants with robots and share of workers exposed to robots and plant size distributional statistics from the 2018 ASM.

Capital expenditures for robotic equipment were collected for the first time on the 2018 Annual Capital Expenditures Survey (ACES).

This paper uses data from the 2019 Annual Business Survey to document that firms adopting advanced technologies are larger in terms of employment than other firms in their same industry and cohort.