US losing electric vehicle industry to China was an error that will repeat in robotics unless addressed

US losing electric vehicle industry to China was an error that will repeat in robotics unless addressed | we somehow decided it was okay for them to dominate the electric vehicle industry. This was an error... I don't want to lose the robotic revolution in my view the way we lost the electric vehicle revolution

we somehow decided it was okay for them to dominate the electric vehicle industry. This was an error... I don't want to lose the robotic revolution in my view the way we lost the electric vehicle revolution

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