The question here is about robotics as a multidisciplinary field combining different engineering disciplines:

The disciplines under question are:

1. software engineering with c++

2. machine learning

3. manual fabrication; i.e. using tools and building physical things

It is commonly understood that robotics combines all three; especially mobile/ground robotics -- warehouse robotics, delivery robots, etc.

My first question is: How often do robotics engineers really work across all three disciplines?

Based on my own career in software development, especially when in a large company, most departments are silo'd, so even in a robotics company, there are teams that only work on machine learning, other teams that only work on software development, and teams that only do fabrication/building.

Perhaps maybe with a young startup, an engineer might wear more than one hat from those. But of course with startups there are always risks involved...

What is the community feedback on this?