Why do people still manually code in the assembly language? Is extra efficiency and control the main reasons?

There are high level languages that seem to be much faster to develop with, easier to maintain, debug, and seem better for making code easy to understand. Why continue using the assembly language when these other languages seem to solve the same problems?

What is the most interesting kind of technology that you think is best done with assembly? Is it a kind of robot? Is it part of a computer game?