ROBO Global Robotics & Automation ETF

ROBO Global Robotics & Automation ETF (ROBO) is a passively managed thematic fund issued by ROBO Global and advised by Exchange Traded Concepts. It tracks the ROBO Global Robotics and Automation Index, a tiered-weight global benchmark of roughly 90 companies across industrial automation, robotics components, and enabling software (with an approximate 47% industrials / 42% technology split). ROBO is the broadest "embodied intelligence" vehicle in the map — the robotics-and-automation complement to the semiconductor-led Physical AI coverage (SMH/SOXX). In the PXS map, ROBO qualifies on its top-ten holdings: several mapped companies (including Intuitive Surgical, Illumina, PTC, Rockwell Automation, Novanta, and Teradyne) sit within its top-ten even though none clears a strict weight threshold, a consequence of its more equal-weight construction. Coverage is limited to direct, issuer-reported positions in already-mapped companies, not the complete portfolio, and this is a research map rather than a recommendation. ROBO is most useful for the breadth it adds to the Physical AI robotics-and-automation layer. Because ROBO is near-flat-weight (its top holding, Intuitive Surgical, is roughly 2.0%), six of its top-ten and nine of its top-25 holdings are mapped companies — broad, non-concentrated Physical AI coverage rather than a concentrated play.