We've already lost manufacturing jobs to outsourcing, that ship has sailed. Couldn't it therefor be argued that a move to robot based manufacturing would benefit the U.S. in the long run? If the majority of manufacturing jobs are in Asia, then the move to a robot based manufacturing workforce would bring manufacturing back to the U.S. We would be able to produce higher quality goods, at a higher rate, for a lower cost, and wouldn't have to spend any money getting them across the pacific ocean. If we couple this with changes to the education system, to train more innovators, inventors, artists, thinkers, scientists, doctors, engineers, programmers, entrepreneurs, and mathematicians, instead of using our education system to train the majority of people to perform menial tasks such as those required by the industrial revolution of the early 1900s, we might be able to increase the rate of the advancement of the human race exponentially.