Ask HN: How to transition into Robotics

I would very much like to work on robotics in almost any capacity and am wondering if anyone can share any tips on how I might be able to break into the industry.

I’ve got about 5 years of full stack development experience and a EE degree. Right now I work more on the server side of things, and would like to continue writing software as my job but just for robotics. I know this experience won’t directly translate over to robotics but I do feel like I would be able to get up to speed quickly using my experience.

Any advice or knowledge from people looking to do the same thing / are already working on robotics would be very much appreciated