America - Left In the Dust?

 World Robotics Conference 2023

Here's an article with a few statistics about the use of robots in China. As far as I can find, no American company had a booth at the conference.

Here's Part I of an article from 2017 on The Conference and politics of robotics.

Part II of the 2017 article.

Over 40 years ago I took an introductory course in robotics at the community college. I've yet to hear of anything happening in New Mexico.

A little research turned up this article from 29.June of this year about CNM's (the community college) new building that'll include classes on Industrial Automation Technologies; better eventually than never.

Sandia Laboratory and Los Alamos Labs purportedly have some of the world's greatest minds, but for decades all we've heard about is weapons research.

Weapons are useless in the world of commerce. Our imperialist methods are outdated and we're being left to wallow in our provincialism. But the military-industrial complex, like the ranchers' grip on Public Lands, remains strong.