A bit shocked to realise how I'd completely forgotten about robotics whereas it had seemed the grandest challenge. Is robotics itself slipping toward being marg

A bit shocked to realise how I'd completely forgotten about robotics whereas it had seemed the grandest challenge. Is robotics itself slipping toward being marginal as physical manipulation is becoming less important over time? The sci-fi robots don't even walk these days, they're holograms etc. I'm not a software engineer so it's not just that