I would recommend you use your expertise wisely to the less areas to build tangible product outcomes that actualy help humanity. I recently brought a drone kit & raspberrypi and built one with a vision to use it help for farming/agriculture/seed-bombing etc. This required me to move out of my desk and play with the hardware and eventually go outside to test it. At fist you may think its impossible to learn robotics stuffs since you are just a programmer. But trust me, if I can do it with no experience in Robotics, you definitely can. That way you can make use of your existing skill, learn new ones and see tangible outcomes. IMHO I always wonder what happened to the future. There is a huge gap in robotics today. We should've built better things than facebook, twitter with computers by now.