Abstract: Industrial intelligence provides a feasible path for enterprises to develop new quality productivity and achieve high-quality development. By incorporating carbon emissions as an input factor into the production function of enterprises and using data from listed manufacturing companies, this study examines how the application of industrial robots affects corporate carbon productivity. Research has found that: (1) the application of industrial robots significantly improves the carbon productivity of manufacturing enterprises, and this conclusion still holds true after a series of robustness tests and endogeneity treatments. (2) The mechanism of action indicates that the application of industrial robots not only promotes the improvement of enterprise carbon productivity through the resource efficiency mechanism of improving labor productivity, capital utilization efficiency, and energy utilization efficiency, but also enhances enterprise carbon productivity through knowledge enrichment and strengthening enterprise adaptability. (3) In larger enterprises with lower financing constraints, enterprises with high internal control and no green mergers and acquisitions, and enterprises with higher industry competition and lower monopoly power, industrial robots are more likely to promote the improvement of carbon productivity. To this end, enterprises should be encouraged to prioritize the research and development of advanced industrial robots; promote their transformation into learning organizations, and strengthen their agility management; facilitate the construction of the carbon market, further expand its coverage, and improve the trading system.

摘要： 工业智能化为企业发展新质生产力，实现企业高质量发展提供了可行路径。通过将碳排放作为一种投入要素纳入企业生产函数，利用制造业上市企业数据，考察了工业机器人应用对企业碳生产率的影响。研究发现：（1）工业机器人应用显著提升了制造业企业碳生产率，在一系列稳健性检验和内生性处理后该结论依然成立。（2）作用机制表明，工业机器人应用不仅通过提高劳动生产率、资本利用效率和能源使用效率的资源增效机制来促进企业碳生产率提升，而且还利用知识增密和增强企业适应性能力的方式提升企业碳生产率。（3）在规模较大、融资约束较低的企业，具有内部控制高、没有绿色并购行为的企业，处于行业竞争越高、企业垄断势力越低的企业中工业机器人更能促进企业碳生产率提升。为此，应鼓励企业重视对先进工业机器人研发；推动企业向学习型组织转变，强化企业敏捷性管理；推动碳市场建设，进一步扩大覆盖范围，完善交易体系。