[RightWhale]

Right, I have been through all that. But robots are not the point; robots are a means. Multiple PhDs: odd concept. One PhD is the key to the universe; how many keys to the universe does a person need?.

[GingisK]

One PhD is the key to the universe; how many keys to the universe does a person need?.

Wow! You are very naive. Most likely very young. How many high technology disciplines are there? There are experts in each discipline who don't know squat about the others. A mathematician is not a chemist is not a mechanical engineer, is not a biologist is not a metallurgist, and so on. How will you choose your experts when you don't know how to assess the expertise? If nobody goes for engineering degrees in the US, where will you find them?

As I pointed out previously, aerospace development requires experts in multiple disciplines. You don't even know what all of those might be. How will you assemble a team? How will you pay them? How will you entice them to work for you? Money is the key. How would you plan to get money? Why would an investor provide this to you rather than someone who already has a team or at least already knows how to assemble one?

Try starting your own nation and printing your own currency.

[FITZ]

The problem with the manufacture of robots so that every American could have their own robot is that the Chinese and Indians could manufacture them much more cheaply. A robot is going to be nothing but some mechanical parts and computerized circuits ---- pretty cheap to mass produce in China where other things like that are produced. We've shut down our factories, assembly lines, tool and die shops etc.