The ROBO Global Robotics and Automation Index ETF (ROBO) is an exchange-traded fund designed to provide global exposure to companies associated with robotics, automation, and advanced industrial technologies. The ETF is managed by Exchange Traded Concepts in partnership with ROBO Global and trades under the ticker ROBO on the NYSE Arca.

Classified as a thematic equity ETF, the fund seeks to reflect, before fees and expenses, the performance of the ROBO Global Robotics and Automation Index.

The ETF follows a passive management strategy, maintaining a portfolio structured to replicate the composition and weighting of its benchmark index.

The benchmark includes global companies involved in industrial robotics, process automation, applied artificial intelligence, semiconductors, sensors, advanced manufacturing, and technologies associated with industrial digitalization.

Diversification and sector exposure

ROBO provides exposure primarily associated with:

• Industrial robotics.
• Automation.
• Applied artificial intelligence.
• Semiconductors.
• Sensors and industrial hardware.
• Advanced manufacturing.
• Automated medical technology.
• Global industrial-technology companies.

The ETF’s performance is particularly sensitive to global automation investment, international economic conditions, and corporate spending cycles related to technology infrastructure.

Changes in global monetary policy, fluctuations in the semiconductor sector, and shifts in demand for industrial automation may directly affect the fund’s behavior. The ETF may also reflect developments associated with artificial intelligence expansion, industrial digitalization, and technological transformation across global supply chains.

Structure and costs

ROBO shares trade on the secondary market on the NYSE Arca during regular trading hours. Share creation and redemption occur through authorized participants, a mechanism intended to help align the ETF’s market price with its net asset value (NAV).

The fund charges a management fee as outlined in its prospectus and does not apply a performance fee. ROBO may distribute income derived from dividends paid by companies held within the portfolio.

Because the ETF maintains concentrated thematic exposure to automation and industrial-technology sectors, its performance may exhibit elevated sensitivity to the global technology sector and industrial economic cycles.

History and evolution of the ETF

The ROBO Global Robotics and Automation Index ETF was launched in 2013 during a period marked by the expansion of thematic ETFs focused on technological innovation and global industrial transformation.

Since inception, the fund has reflected movements associated with advances in industrial automation, robotics growth, artificial intelligence expansion, and digitalization of global production processes.

In recent years, ROBO has reflected increasing investment in artificial intelligence, semiconductors, and technology infrastructure, alongside developments associated with industrial automation, corporate productivity, and modernization of global manufacturing supply chains.

Additional Information

ROBO Global Robotics and Automation Index ETF (United States) is an exchange-traded fund (ETF), with assets under management totaling $1.75 billion.

Over the past 12 months, ROBO Global Robotics and Automation Index ETF recorded a return of 3.39%, with its price trading between $63.04 and $90.34 during the same period.

The ETF is traded under the ticker ROBO.