Screened candidates
21
10 direct robotics, 6 autonomy/development, 5 enabling-stack names
Strongest 1Y return
+324.7%
Teradyne; return from the source workbook, not refreshed live
Highest volatility
95.7%
Ouster historical-volatility field; high risk accompanies high momentum
Core evidence gap
Exposure
Theme relevance is established; revenue mix and valuation still need attribution
First-read investment view
The screen separates robotics exposure from stock quality. Momentum alone does not establish an investable robotics thesis.
Research posture
Direct exposure is concentrated; expectations risk is not.
FANUC, Teradyne, Intuitive Surgical and Rockwell Automation offer the clearest listed-company pathways to commercial robotics platforms. However, the strongest recent performers—Teradyne, Ouster, Cognex and Symbotic—also carry either elevated volatility, a large prior run, or both. The next analytical step is therefore exposure attribution plus valuation, not automatic promotion to a buy list.
Candidate funnel
Research-priority labels only. “Advance” means the company merits deeper work, not that the share price offers an attractive entry.
Triage
Advance to deeper work
5
FANUC, Intuitive Surgical, Rockwell, Cognex and Teradyne: commercial exposure is sufficiently specific to justify attribution and valuation work.
Expectations / risk gated
6
Symbotic, Ouster, NVIDIA, Tesla, Kodiak and Pony AI: compelling theme linkage with elevated momentum, volatility or maturity risk.
Needs exposure attribution
7
Robotics is real but diluted inside diversified companies; consolidated returns may not track robotics progress closely.
Secondary watchlist
3
Names with relevant products but weaker momentum or less differentiated exposure remain useful comps and monitoring candidates.
Momentum versus volatility
One-year price growth on the vertical axis; the source workbook’s historical-volatility measure on the horizontal axis.
Risk map
Robotics screen risk map
Every point is labeled by company name. Top-right names combine strong momentum with high realized risk; bottom-right names carry risk without recent price confirmation.
Direct robotics
Autonomy / development
Enabling stack
Highest-priority research cards
These cards define what needs to be proven next. No variant view or valuation conclusion is asserted without deeper source work.
Next diligence
Teradyne
TER ↗1Y+324.7%
6M+110.0%
Volatility62.9%
Actionability: Immediate segment-attribution and valuation work; do not chase the screen return.
Variant wedge: Not yet established. Test whether Universal Robots and MiR can become a larger growth and margin driver than current expectations imply.
First rejection: Robotics momentum fails to offset test-business cyclicality or is already fully capitalized in the multiple.
What would make it investable: Source-backed robotics orders, revenue acceleration and margin progress with valuation support.
What would kill it: Slowing robotics growth, weak utilization economics or a valuation that requires the upside case.
Next workflow: Company tearsheet → segment model → public comps.
FANUC
6954.T ↗1Y+86.4%
6M+57.5%
Volatility44.9%
Actionability: Build a cycle-aware robotics and factory-automation earnings bridge.
Variant wedge: Test whether robot demand, service economics and AI-enabled automation can outpace broader factory-capex expectations.
Why now: Strong one- and six-month momentum signals a meaningful rerating that needs earnings attribution.
First rejection: The move is primarily a cyclical recovery already reflected in estimates.
What would kill it: Weak order conversion, China/manufacturing capex softness or margin disappointment.
Next workflow: Company tearsheet → earnings setup → industrial robotics comps.
Intuitive Surgical
ISRG ↗1Y−24.4%
6M−22.1%
Volatility29.7%
Actionability: Re-underwrite procedure growth, system placements, recurring instruments revenue and valuation after the reset.
Variant wedge: The screen cannot tell whether the drawdown created valuation support or reflects slowing fundamentals.
Why now: Negative momentum and lower volatility create a different setup from the high-beta physical-AI names.
First rejection: Procedure or placement expectations remain too high relative to the new competitive environment.
What would make it investable: Durable utilization and recurring-revenue growth at a valuation that does not require perfection.
Next workflow: Earnings deep dive → DCF/comps → catalyst calendar.
Ouster
OUST ↗1Y+206.6%
5Y−64.2%
Volatility95.7%
Actionability: Speculative watchlist pending operating and financing diligence.
Variant wedge: Test whether robotics and industrial perception adoption can create a durable revenue and gross-margin inflection.
Why now: Exceptional one-year momentum sits beside the screen’s highest volatility and a deeply negative five-year result.
First rejection: The rerating outruns evidence of durable unit economics.
What would kill it: Weak conversion of design wins, persistent cash dependence or renewed dilution risk.
Next workflow: Company tearsheet → liquidity/runway analysis → scenarios.
Complete candidate board
All monetary values are in US dollars. Valuation is market capitalization as of 7 Aug 2026. Income-statement values use the latest available trailing-twelve-month period ending in 2026, with the exact period shown in every financial cell. Jungheinrich is the sole exception because its complete 2026 interim statement was not yet published as of this report. Scroll horizontally for the full return and volatility series; click any ticker to open Yahoo Finance.
21 securities
| Company | Registered country | Exposure | Valuation | Total net revenue | Total cost of revenue | Gross profit | Net income (loss) | 1M | 3M | 6M | 1Y | 5Y | Hist. vol. |
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Methodology and limitations
The report preserves the source workbook’s figures and adds qualitative robotics-exposure triage.
Evidence posture
How the screen was built
- Reviewed all 1,490 data rows in the workbook’s Stocks tab.
- Combined keyword matching with product-level checks for robot platforms, autonomous systems, sensing and machine vision.
- Grouped candidates into direct robotics, autonomy/development and enabling-stack pathways.
- Added each issuer’s legal country of incorporation or organization from current filings and official corporate disclosures; this is not the headquarters or stock-exchange country.
- Used the workbook’s 1M, 3M, 6M, 1Y, 5Y and
historical_volatilityfields. - Added Yahoo Finance provider market capitalization as of 7 Aug 2026; JPY, EUR and SEK listings were converted to USD using same-date Yahoo Finance spot FX.
- Added the latest Yahoo Finance standardized trailing-twelve-month
Total Revenue,Cost Of Revenue,Gross ProfitandNet Incomelines available on 8 Aug 2026. Twenty of 21 periods end in 2026. - Converted income-statement values to USD using the average daily Yahoo Finance FX rate across the matching fiscal/TTM period: 150.7170 JPY per USD for FANUC’s year ended 31 Mar 2026; 1.166578 USD per EUR for Hexagon and KION’s TTM ended 30 Jun 2026; and 1.130158 USD per EUR for Jungheinrich FY2025.
What this report cannot establish
- Market capitalization is a point-in-time size measure, not enterprise value or an earnings/revenue valuation multiple; no consensus, positioning or liquidity data was added.
- TTM period ends range from Mar to Jun 2026 and are not calendarized to one common quarter. Jungheinrich remains FY ended 31 Dec 2025 because its 30 Jun 2026 interim report is scheduled for 11 Aug 2026, after this report’s cutoff.
- Yahoo’s standardized labels may differ from issuer presentation. Kodiak AI does not separately report cost of revenue or gross profit, so those cells remain N/R.
- For newer listings, “5Y” can represent available trading history rather than a complete five-year period.
- Company-level robotics revenue mix and profitability are not quantified in the source workbook.
- Yahoo links are navigation aids; the reported returns were not recalculated from Yahoo.
Selected source ledger
Workbook data controls returns and volatility; Yahoo Finance controls market cap, standardized TTM financials and FX normalization; filings and official corporate disclosures control registered country and reporting-calendar exceptions.
Traceability
GeoStocks — Stocks tabCompany universe, tickers, returns, volatility and row-level update timestamps.
Yahoo Finance market, financial and FX dataProvider market capitalization and spot FX as of 7 Aug 2026; latest standardized TTM income statements and average-period FX accessed 8 Aug 2026. Every ticker in the candidate board links to its quote page.
Kodiak AI FY2025 Form 10-KPrimary-source confirmation that revenue is reported while cost of revenue and gross profit are not separately presented.
SEC issuer filingsLegal jurisdiction checks for US-listed issuers, including Medtronic’s Irish organization, Pony AI’s Cayman Islands incorporation and Kodiak AI’s Delaware registration.
Official non-US corporate disclosuresFANUC · Hexagon · KION · Jungheinrich.
Jungheinrich financial calendarThe interim report as of 30 Jun 2026 is scheduled for 11 Aug 2026; FY2025 is therefore the latest complete statement at the 8 Aug cutoff.
Teradyne RoboticsUniversal Robots collaborative robots and MiR autonomous mobile robots.
FANUC robot productsIndustrial and collaborative robot portfolio.
SymboticAI-enabled warehouse automation and robotic systems.
Intuitive da VinciRobotic-assisted surgical platform.
Rockwell OTTO robotsAutonomous mobile robots following the Clearpath acquisition.
NVIDIA RoboticsIsaac simulation, robot learning and physical-AI development stack.
OusterLidar sensing and perception for robotics and autonomous systems.