It's more that robotics can now mooch off the AI boom. All that money going into adtech and surveillance produces technology that can be used to solve practical problems.
Problems like "how do we build better automated surveillance robots? it's so inconvenient to have to actually have a human remotely piloting the kill-bots"
Which is the other, equally shiny part of the coin.
Elder care, anyone? They're as cool as you and me (+30yrs) :)