Unfortunately, the United States lags behind other countries in recognizing the importance of robotics technology. While the European Union, Japan, Korea, and the rest of the world have made significant R&D investments in robotics technology, the . investment, outside unmanned systems for defense purposes, remains practically non-existent. Unless this situation can be addressed in the near future, the United States runs the risk of abdicating our ability to globally compete in these emerging markets and putting the nation at risk of having to rely on the rest of the world to provide a critical technology that our population will become increasingly dependent upon. Robotech clearly represents.
