Our city is a hub for robotic, technical and manufacturing advancements.

I have quite a bit of experience working with surgeons as I worked with Intuitive Surgical, developers of the daVinci robot for quite some time.  

I have one friend that would argue "The more you can automate the more human detail you can devote to where it counts." but she thinks robots are taking over and skips the self-checkout line at grocery stores so people can still have a job haha lol. 

If it helps- think of yourself as a robot.

It gives you a lot of construction knowledge, the PE is more or less a paper pusher (think review submittals, some buy out of subs, create RFIs, update documents, work on change orders, etc.).

They see our city as the next great start-up hub, especially with regard to advanced robotics, thanks in huge part to Carnegie Mellon University.

But this is easier said that done, you dont get to rub shoulders with the whales just like that.Whales can deploy 0.05% of their total buying power and make the stock price move up a couple of dollars , similarly they can sell the same and make the stock drop a couple of dollars and wipe out millions of average joe investors cash , they invest small amount but represent the largest subset of the retail investors .Whales can do this because their order size is so big,trade speed is ultra fast and robotic it is chump change to them .They can deploy this strategy while sippin on bacardi on a beach-Read This is very different to the path average joe is currently on and possibly not possible to embark upon because it is a select club ,and joe is not invited!

Artificial intelligence, automated vehicles, robotics and virtual reality technologies will boom over the coming years and guess where ground zero is? 

They do 'handwritten' letters and postcards done by pen-wielding robot arms (seriously). 

I have a hard time understanding because I am the type of person to definitely choose a robot over a person.