Chapter VI — Governance and Industrial Strategy
National Security Dimension
Control over actuator, sensor, and battery supply chains is as strategic as control over semiconductors. Robotic labor compounds into defense logistics, shipbuilding, and munitions — the Von Neumann arsenal.
Economic Dimension
Robot-hours become a new class of capital. Accounting systems must evolve to track "autonomous hour assets." Tax policy may treat robots as depreciating labor equivalents; finance can securitize robot fleets (RaaS ABS).
Infrastructure Dimension
Energy, materials, and human capital become the triad of constraints. Policy levers: grid expansion, rare-earth independence, technical education, robot insurance markets.