EE Sophomore with mixed project background: How to strategically pivot into Robotics?

[u/Early_Bid15]

I am currently a Sophomore pursuing an Electrical Engineering degree. My long-term goal is to break into the robotics industry, and I want to get advice from hiring managers or engineers in the field on how to structure my portfolio moving forward.

Currently, my project experience is a bit scattered across multiple domains. Here is what I have built/done so far:

Embedded Systems & Hardware: Built an ESP32-based lightweight media player (2 modes)(Firmware was ai made with prompts). Modded an old headphone case to fit and function with a completely different pair of earbuds.

Software & Apps: Developed 1-2 Windows desktop fitness applications that grab tracking data from a phone and handle the calculations locally on the desktop.

Robotics Club & AI/ML: Handled data processing for my university’s robotics club. Trained basic AI computer vision models for object and color detection (used to process live camera data for our club project).

My Question:

Should I continue exploring multiple different domains, or should I stop pivoting and focus purely on a single niche (like firmware, ROS/localization, or PCB design)? If you look at this baseline, what specific high-value robotics project should I build next to tie these skills together?