Hopium for your robotic bags after I spent some time actually reading through the material is here.
This thing didn’t really pop in 2025 cuz it’s still a build year.
Macro was ugly for anything capital-intensive. Rates stayed high, risk appetite stayed selective, and money kept flowing to software-first stories with faster feedback loops.
Robotics, by nature, is a slow burn. That doesn’t play well in a market obsessed with instant narratives.
On the TradFi side, robot adoption is still surprisingly low in the US, IPO exits have been thin, and even big incumbents like Fanuc or Rockwell are repo