| The United States is completely dropping the ball in the | | | | 10-million a year in funding now. That is a national |
| funding of robotics research to the point of | | | | tragedy and a disgrace. To all we are and all we have |
| endangering the future of our nation. Whereas we lead | | | | built in this great country. A country founded on |
| the field in some things we are very far behind in | | | | entrepreneurialism and innovation and it is a slap in the |
| others and it is at the point that if we do not play catch | | | | face to the forward progression of mankind. Some |
| up, we will put our nation's national security at severe | | | | deny that the US lags other nations, but it takes only |
| risk. This is coupled with the fact that we do not have | | | | one look at Japan's robotic research, white papers and |
| enough children entering the math and science arenas. | | | | commercial android like robotics to see, we are behind |
| Although recently with the DARPA Grand Challenge | | | | in many ways. |
| and robotics competitions in High Schools and Colleges | | | | Sure we have some great Universities working on |
| we have made some headway, but lack of funding is | | | | stuff such as MIT, Standford, Berkeley, Georgia Tech, |
| undermining our future needs as a sovereign country. | | | | Virginia Tech and Carnegie Mellon, be we are not |
| The National Science Foundation, which has funded | | | | properly priming the pipe for the needs of our future. |
| robotics research in the past is now putting less than | | | | Think on this, but don't bother arguing with me. |