Canada is nowhere in R&D

It is very very poor on commercializing anything it does develop any way

Think of all the money spent in 'robotics' - like the 'canadarm'

Meaningless. There is no robotics industry in Canada. All the robots in manufacturing come from the USA, Europe or Asia

In the growing area of automating warehouses (ever seen an Amazon one in operation?), nothing from Canada

So saying the country may lose the race implies Canada was in the race to begin with - it most assuredly is not...

There is but one bright area - software.  And while the schools provide the training, the low start-up costs have mostly been born by entrepreneurs...