A new BusinessWeek online article offers an interview with Takeo Kanade, former director of Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute, about the state of robotics research and innovation in the United States. Interestingly, he suggests that amateurs are much better at innovating than experts. On the other hand, the experts are better at implementing. He also warns that a number of factors are pushing the U.S. toward a "perfect storm" in the fields of engineering and science that could set the country even further behind the rest of the world.