We need to be the #1 robot nation. That means Americans need an educational system that gives them the ability to create things like robots instead of being stuck in jobs that will be replaced by them, eventually.
I’d like to see tech colleges get onto teaching dedicated robotics.
Americans are creating things like robots. But not all Americans. Visit a MakerBot show and you'll see hundreds if not thousands of American youth involved in it. Same goes for TechShop, lots of youth creating stuff. However, it isn't the mindless youths who protest and trash streets, or ghetto kids who lazily hang around listening to rap all day. Our educational system isn't creating the creators; it's parental guidance that is creating our creators. Hopefully we can change our educational system to get other kids up to speed. If not, we still have creative talent out there thanks to good parents. When I've been at TechShop, I don't see hardly any black youth, mainly white and Asian. Same goes for MakerBot shows, which are a lot of fun. If you have older kids, get them to a show to rev up their interest in electronics and creative design.
Low IQ people put into any education system means low IQ people out no matter how much investment is made. The world increasingly has an oversupply of stupid people, in other words: human pets. However eventually there will even be an oversupply of high IQ people as super computers exceed human capabilities.