What factors could lead to a narrow focus of technology?

In many SF stories (or fantasy if you replace science with magic), there is one technology that is hyper advanced in one specific field, like robotics in Real Humans or in Extant, but almost nothing else in the world has advanced beyond what we know today.

However, robotics (like most advanced science fields) is a highly pluridisciplinary field of study, from mechanical engineering to energy production and storage, to ethics, to artificial intelligence, to human biology (bionics), to human psychology (social robotics)...

What could lead a society as the one on earth today to focus so much on one specific thing ? (like building human-like androids) without the technology ever branching out to other applications (improving transportation, treating mental disorders, developing communications, better health system and whatnot).

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