Over the last several years I stumbled into a killer app for robotics: testing. Almost every manufacturer of any thing has a secret testing lab of robots (and engineers to program them). Robotics are good for dealing with dangerous things (like welding or bomb disposal) and those bots get most of the attention. But robots are also great for "boring", tedious things, like tapping buttons for 12 hours straight. Yet those robots don't get as much attention because, well, watching button tapping is slightly boring, and more importantly, many companies want to keep their quality control (and manufacturing) robotic processes a trade secret. Thus, most people have no idea how prevalent robots really are beyond flashy Boston Dynamics videos.
Best part is that your boss doesn't blink when you ask him to approve legos sets and lego boxes bought by the pound to build the boring tapping, sliding, dropping, shaking robot of the week that they need.
Edit: second best part is take your kid to work day when you get to show the 8 year olds your cabinets full of spare lego parts.
