Obama: "We Need More Robots"

That's not what he said. I can't find a full quote buried under all the editorializing, but it was a lot more nuanced than the lazy exaggeration of "ATMs are killing jobs" you'll see in all the search results.

edit: Here it is: "the other thing that happened, though, and this goes to the point you were just making, is there are some structural issues with our economy where a lot of businesses have learned to become much more efficient with a lot fewer workers. You see it when you go to a bank and you use an ATM; you don't go to a bank teller. Or you go to the airport, and you're using a kiosk instead of checking in at the gate. So all these things have created changes in the economy, and what we have to do now -- and that's what this job council is all about -- is identifying where the jobs for the future are going to be; how do we make sure that there's a match between what people are getting trained for and the jobs that exist; how do we make sure that capital is flowing into those places with the greatest opportunity. We are on the right track. The key is figuring out how do we accelerate it"

More "machines are taking over jobs and we're failing to retrain the people who lost them" than "ATMs are killing jobs."

Properly, because he is a turncoat^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^HPolitician.

Which reminds me: why is it on Hacker News? It is not a particular revolutional program.