Ok seems like Robotics is gonna be the play of the next few weeks/months. Here are some good companies worth watching imo
Spread across the stack: the OS, the sensors, the brain, and the body.
$BB - QNX is the safety-certified operating system that runs underneath the robot, not the robot itself. Deterministic, ISO-certified software is hard to replicate, which is why it sits in autonomous cars, industrial automation and now physical AI. QNX did $72.3M last quarter, up 26%, royalty backlog near $1B, partnered with NVIDIA and Arm.
$CCXI ($AGLT post deSPAC) - The public vehicle for Agility Robotics and its Digit humanoid, merging with Churchill Capital XI at a $2.5B pre-money valuation. Digit is already deployed at Schaeffler, GXO and Toyota with 65,000+ operating hours and $300m in multi-year orders.
$OUST - Ouster builds digital lidar, the depth perception layer for robots, AVs and industrial automation. One sensor architecture scaling across multiple end markets.
$AMBA - Ambarella makes edge AI vision chips that give machines real-time sight without the cloud. The same silicon that powers ADAS now targets robotics, drones and autonomous systems.
$AEVA - Aeva builds FMCW 4D lidar that measures velocity per point, not just distance. That matters for machines that need to predict motion, not only map space. Still pre-scale on revenue, so execution is key.
$RR - Richtech Robotics builds service and humanoid robots for hospitality and logistics. Micro-cap and speculative, the lottery-ticket end of the basket. Real deployments but thin financials.
$TER - Teradyne owns Universal Robots (cobots) and MiR (mobile robots), on top of being a semiconductor test leader. The cleanest profitable robotics exposure here, with a chip-cycle tailwind underneath. However, robotics is still a minority of revenue.
$SYM - Symbotic automates warehouses with AI-driven robotics, anchored by Walmart. Real revenue at scale, rare for this theme. Customer concentration and lumpy deployments are the risk.
$SERV - Serve Robotics runs autonomous sidewalk delivery, backed by NVIDIA and Uber. Fleet expansion is the growth story. Their robots look kinda ass though.
$CGNX - Cognex is machine vision, the eyes of factory automation and robotic guidance. Established and profitable, levered to capex cycles. Less explosive, more durable.
Any other ideas?
$NOK is turning cell towers into mini data center nodes by installing $NVDA GPUs directly into its AI-RAN base stations.
A factory robot cannot wait 200 milliseconds for a cloud server. So instead of routing that decision back to a centralized data center, you run the inference at the tower. $TMUS was the first US carrier to pilot it.
$NVDA's Jensen Huang said it himself on last night's call. "every single base station, every single radio network would become an AI-powered radio network."
Very interesting tech coming out of $NOK.
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