For the AI believer who has an axiom that AGI is around the corner to take over knowledge work, isn't that just "a small matter of robotics" to either tele-operate a physical avatar or deploy a miniaturized AI in an autonomous chassis?

I'm afraid it's really a matter of faith, in either direction, to predict whether an AI can take over the autonomous decision making and robotic systems can take over physical actions which are currently delegated to human professions. And, I think many robotic control problems are inherently solved if we have sufficient AI advancement.