And so it goes on.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is gaining widespread acceptance in the healthcare sector. "85% of organizations in the healthcare sector are starting to implement AI solutions," says Kristoffer Karl Unterbrunner, portfolio manager at Medical Strategy, a fund provider specializing in the healthcare sector.

The potential of AI in the healthcare sector is immense

While the global market for AI in the healthcare sector was worth around 29 billion US dollars in 2024, according to the market research institute Fortune Business Insights, sales are expected to increase by an average of 44% annually to 504 billion US dollars by 2032.

The potential of AI is particularly high in the field of radiology. Integration into imaging procedures such as MRI makes diagnoses faster and more precise.

The pioneers include Siemens Healthineers
$SHL (-0,12 %) from the leading German DAX index .

"The company is benefiting from the sharp rise in demand for AI-supported diagnostics and strict European regulation, which is boosting confidence in its solutions," says Jens Klatt, analyst at online broker XTB.

Analysts rate Siemens Healthineers positively

Siemens Healthineers, the global market leader for CT, MRI and X-ray systems, has access to billions of medical image and laboratory data every day. This anonymized data flows into the company's own AI system "Sherlock". The Erlangen-based company has already integrated more than 80 AI applications into its imaging systems.

Siemens Healthineers exceeded analysts' expectations in the past quarter with a 7.6 percent increase in revenue to 5.7 billion euros compared to the previous year. Net profit rose by 18 percent to 556 million euros.

The analysts' assessment is positive. With an average analyst price target of 62 euros for the next twelve months, there is still potential of around 33 percent. According to the financial data provider LSEG, 20 analysts recommend buying the share, two are neutral and one advises selling.

AI is also finding its way into surgery

This is what the US company Intuitive Surgical
$ISRG (+1,61 %) . It is known for its Da Vinci platform. This is a robot-assisted surgical system that supports surgeons in their work. Intuitive Surgical has developed the system over decades and also uses AI.

Da Vinci can even compensate for minimal tremors in the human hand. "The system can process enormous amounts of data and gain insights that improve the training of surgeons, optimize surgical techniques and standardize results," says Tom Riley, Chief Equity Strategist at fund provider Axa Investment Managers.

The global market leader exceeded expectations in the second quarter. Turnover rose by 21 percent to 2.4 billion dollars. Earnings per share increased by 23 percent to 2.19 dollars. However, the share is valued extremely ambitiously with a price/earnings ratio of 58 based on the profits expected for 2025.

According to LSEG, 22 analysts recommend Intuitive Surgical as a buy, eleven recommend holding the stock and one advises selling. With an average target price of 594 US dollars, there is a potential upside of 25 percent.

Source text (excerpt) & graphics: Handelsblatt, 02.09.25

After my first post on humanoid robots received a lot of positive feedback, I went into more detail. I have subsequently added my favorites in each sector.

Extended analysis of the value chain including shovel manufacturers and potential hidden champions

New categorySecondary key sectors (sales, marketing, financing)

AdditionallyTop 25 companies worldwide, as well as Top 10 Europe and Top 10 Asia

I have also added a video link for beginners. This will give you an idea of how far the development of humanoid robotics has already progressed.

https://www.stern.de/panorama/wissen/humanoider-roboter---wie-reagiert-er-auf-beleidigungen--35996156.html

Thank you for your attention and your support 🙏

🌐 1. value chain of humanoid robots (with hidden champions)

1. research & chip design

$ARM (+2,06 %) ARM (UK) - CPU-IP, energy-efficient processors

$SNPS (+8,73 %) Synopsys (US) - EDA software, chip design

$CDNS (+3,68 %) Cadence (US) - EDA & Simulation

$PTC PTC (US) - Engineering Software, CAD/PLM

$DSY (-0,4 %) Dassault Systèmes (FR) - 3D Design & Digital Twin

$SIE (+0,59 %) Siemens (DE) - Industrial Software & Lifecycle Mgmt

$ADBE (-0,82 %) Adobe (US) - Design, AR/UX

ANSYS (US) - multiphysical simulation - acquisition by Synopsis

Altair (US) - CAE, simulation, digital twin - acquisition by Siemens

$HXGBY (+0,51 %)
Hexagon (SE) - Metrology & Simulation

$AWE (+0,12 %) Alphawave IP Group (UK) - High-speed chip IP for AI/robotics

1.Synopsis, 2.Siemens and 3.Adobe are my top 3 in this sector

2. manufacturing technology & equipment

$ASML (+1,46 %) ASML (NL) - Lithography (EUV)

$AMAT (+3,95 %) Applied Materials (US) - Semiconductor equipment

$8035 (+1,24 %) Tokyo Electron (JP) - wafer fabrication

$KEYS (+0,36 %) Keysight Technologies (US) - Metrology

$6857 (+4,63 %) Advantest (JP) - Chip test systems

$TER (-2,03 %) Teradyne (US) - test systems + cobots

$6954 (+1,45 %) Fanuc (JP) - Industrial robots, CNC

$CAT (+2,01 %) Caterpillar (US) - autonomous machines

$KU2G KUKA (DE) - industrial robots

Comau (IT) - automation - not listed on the stock exchange

$ROK Rockwell Automation (US) - industrial automation

$JBL (-0,34 %) Jabil (US) - contract manufacturing (EMS/ODM)

$KIT (+0,89 %) Kitron (NO) - European EMS/ODM manufacturer

$AIXA (+0,35 %) Aixtron (DE) - deposition equipment for compound semiconductors

$LRCX (+7,09 %)
Lam Research (US) - Etch/deposition systems

$MKSI (+3,18 %)
MKS Instruments (US) - Plasma/vacuum technology

$ASM (+0,9 %)
ASM International (NL) - Deposition systems

1.ASML, 2.Keysight Technologies, 3.Fanuc are my top 3 in this sector

3. chip manufacturing (foundries)

$TSM (-1,01 %) TSMC (TW) - leading foundry

$005930 Samsung Electronics (KR) - foundry + memory

$GFS (+0,39 %) GlobalFoundries (US) - specialty chips

$INTC (+0,09 %)
Intel Foundry Services (US) - new western foundry player

$981
SMIC (CN) - largest Chinese foundry

$UMC
UMC (TW) - Power/RF/Embedded chips

1.TSMC, 2.Intel, 3.Samsung Electronics are my top 3 in this sector

4. computing & control unit ("brain")

$NVDA (-0,42 %) Nvidia (US) - GPUs, AI chips

$INTC (+0,09 %) Intel (US) - CPUs, FPGAs

$AMD (-1,8 %) AMD (US) - CPUs, GPUs

$MRVL (-0,1 %) Marvell (US) - Network Chips

$MU (+9,4 %) Micron (US) - Memory

$DELL (+1,82 %) Dell Technologies (US) - Edge & Infrastructure

Graphcore (UK) - AI chips (IPU) - not a listed company

Cerebras (US) - Wafer-scale engine - not a listed company

SiPearl (FR) - European HPC chip - not a listed company

1.Nvidia, 2.Marvell, 3.Micron are my top 3 in this sector

5. sensors ("senses")

$6758 (+1,08 %) Sony (JP) - image sensors

$6861 (+0,43 %) Keyence (JP) - Industrial sensors

$STM (+0,9 %) STMicroelectronics (FR/IT) - Sensors, MCUs

$TDY Teledyne (US) - optical/infrared sensors

$CGNX (+0,72 %) Cognex (US) - Machine Vision

$HON (+0,82 %) Honeywell (US) - sensor technology, security

ANYbotics (CH) - autonomous sensor fusion - not a listed company

$AMBA (-1,12 %) Ambarella (US) - video & computer vision SoCs for real-time image recognition

$OUST
Velodyne Lidar (US) - Lidar sensors - acquisition by Ouster

$AMS (+1,15 %)
-OSRAM (AT/DE) - optical sensors

1.Teledyne, 2.Keyence, 3.Ouster are my top 3 in this sector

6. actuators & power electronics ("muscles")

$IFX (+0,53 %) Infineon (DE) - Power Electronics

$ON (+0,74 %) onsemi (US) - Power & Sensors

$TXN (-0,09 %) Texas Instruments (US) - Mixed-Signal Chips

$ADI (+0,27 %) Analog Devices (US) - Signal Processing

$PH Parker-Hannifin (US) - Hydraulics/Pneumatics

$MP (+3,56 %) MP Materials (US) - Magnets

$APH (-0,15 %) Amphenol (US) - Connectors

$6481 (+1,28 %) THK (JP) - Linear guides & actuators

$6324 (+1,39 %)
Harmonic Drive (JP) - Precision gears & servo drives for robotics

$6594 (+0,99 %)
Nidec (JP) - Electric motors

$6506 (+0,57 %)
Yaskawa (JP) - Drives & Robotics

$SU (+0,69 %)
Schneider Electric (FR) - Energy & control solutions

$ZIL2 (-0,54 %)
ElringKlinger (DE) - Battery & fuel cell technology, lightweight construction

1.Parker-Hannifin, 2.MP Materials, 3.Infinion are my top 3 in this sector

7. communication & networking ("nerves")

$QCOM (+1,47 %) Qualcomm (US) - mobile communications, edge AI

$ANET (+1,13 %) Arista Networks (US) - Networks

$CSCO (-0,27 %) Cisco (US) - Networks, Security

$EQIX (+1,2 %) Equinix (US) - Data centers

NTT Docomo (JP) - 5G/6G carrier - not a listed company

$VZ Verizon (US) - Telecommunications

$SFTBY SoftBank (JP) - Carrier + Robotics

$ERIC B (+1,19 %)
Ericsson (SE) - 5G/IoT infrastructure

$NOKIA (+0,06 %)
Nokia (FI) - 5G/6G for industry

$HPE (+1,55 %)
Juniper Networks (US) - Network technology - acquisition by HP

1.Arista Networks, 2.SoftBank, 3.Cisco are my top 3 in this sector

8. energy supply

$3750 (+0,86 %) CATL (CN) - Batteries

$6752 (+0,27 %) Panasonic (JP) - Batteries

$373220 LG Energy (KR) - Batteries

$ALB (+2,75 %) Albemarle (US) - Lithium

$LYC (+0,14 %) Lynas (AU) - Rare earths

$UMICY (-1,24 %) Umicore (BE) - Recycling

WiTricity (US) - inductive charging - not a listed company

$ABBN (+0,51 %) Charging (CH) - charging infrastructure

$SLDP
Solid Power (US) - Solid state batteries

Northvolt (SE) - European batteries - not a listed company

$PLUG
Plug Power (US) - fuel cells

1.Albemarle, 2.CATL, 3.Panasonic are my top 3 in this sector

9. cloud & infrastructure

$AMZN (-0,28 %) Amazon AWS (US) - Cloud, AI

$MSFT (-0,13 %) Microsoft Azure (US) - Cloud, AI

$GOOG (-0,27 %) Alphabet Google Cloud (US) - Cloud, ML

$VRT
Vertiv Holdings (US) - Data center infrastructure (UPS, cooling, edge)

$ORCL (-5,06 %)
Oracle Cloud (US) - ERP + Cloud

$IBM (-0,13 %)
IBM Cloud (US) - Hybrid cloud + AI

$OVH (+4,44 %)
OVHcloud (FR) - European cloud

1.Alphabet, 2.Microsoft, 3.Oracle are my top 3 in this sector

10. software & data platforms

$PLTR (-1,1 %) Palantir (US) - Data integration

$DDOG (-0,64 %) Datadog (US) - Monitoring

$SNOW (-0,08 %) Snowflake (US) - Data Cloud

$ORCL (-5,06 %) Oracle (US) - Databases, ERP

$SAP (-2,4 %) SAP (DE) - ERP systems

$SPGI S&P Global (US) - financial/market data

ROS2 Foundation - robotics middleware - not listed on the stock exchange

$NVDA (-0,42 %) NVIDIA Isaac (US) - robotics development - part of Nvidia

$INOD (+4,87 %) Innodata (US) - data annotation & AI training data

$PATH (-2,08 %)
UiPath (RO/US) - Robotic process automation

$AI (+3,36 %)
C3.ai (US) - AI platform

$ESTC (-2,03 %)
(NL/US) - Search & data analysis

1.S&P Global, 2.Palantir, 3.Datadog are my top 3 in this sector

11. end applications / robots

$ABB ABB (CH/SE) - Industrial Robots

$6954 (+1,45 %) Fanuc (JP) - Industrial robots

$TSLA (+3,62 %) Tesla Optimus (US) - humanoid robot

$9618 (+1,86 %) JD.com (CN) - logistics robot

$AAPL (+0,41 %) Apple (US) - Platform & UX

$700 (+1,34 %) Tencent (CN) - Platform & AI

$9988 (+8,51 %) Alibaba (CN) - logistics & platform

PAL Robotics (ES) - humanoid robots - not a listed company

Neura Robotics (DE) - cognitive humanoid robots - not a listed company

$TER (-2,03 %) Universal Robots (DK) - cobots - belongs to the Teradyne Corporation

Engineered Arts (UK) - humanoid robots - not a listed company

$ISRG (+1,61 %) Intuitive Surgical (US) - surgical robotics

$GMED (+0,4 %)
Globus Medical (US) - surgical robotics (ExcelsiusGPS platform)

$7012 (+2,29 %) Kawasaki Heavy Industries (JP) - industrial robots, automation

$CPNG (+1,17 %) Coupang (KR) - Logistics end user

$IRBT (+5,5 %)
iRobot (US) - consumer robotics (e.g. Roomba), non-humanoid, but navigation/sensor fusion

Boston Dynamics (US) - humanoid & mobile robots-no listed company

Hanson Robotics (HK) - humanoid robots (Sophia) - not a listed company

Agility Robotics (US) - humanoid robot "Digit" - not a listed company

1.Apple, 2.Tencent, 3.Alibaba are my top 3 in this sector

🛠 2. cross enablers (shovel manufacturers) - with hidden champions

Raw materials & battery materials

Albemarle - Lynas - Umicore

$SQM
SQM (CL) - Lithium

$ILU (-5,09 %)
Iluka Resources (AU) - Rare earths

$ARR (-1,37 %)
American Rare Earths (US/AU) - New supply chains

my number 1 in the sector is Albemarle

manufacturing technology

ASML - Applied Materials - Tokyo Electron

$LRCX (+7,09 %)
Lam Research (US) - Plasma/etching processes

$ASM (+0,9 %)
ASM International (NL) - ALD equipment

$MKSI (+3,18 %)
MKS Instruments (US) - Plasma/vacuum technology

my number 1 in the sector is ASML

Quality assurance

Keysight - Advantest - Teradyne

$EMR (+1,82 %)
National Instruments (US) - Measurement technology - from Emerson Electric adopted

$300567
ATE Test Systems (CN) - test systems

$FORM (+4,4 %)
FormFactor (US) - Wafer probing

my number 1 in the sector is Keysight

Motion & Drive

Parker-Hannifin

Festo (DE) - Pneumatics, Soft Robotics - not a listed company

Bosch Rexroth (DE) - Drives, Controls - not a listed company

$6481 (+1,28 %)
THK (JP) - Linear guides

my number 1 in the sector is Parker-Hannifin

Sensors/Imaging

$TDY Teledyne

$BSL (+8,54 %) Basler (DE) - Industrial cameras

FLIR (US) - Thermal imaging sensors - acquisition by Teledyne

ISRA Vision (DE) - Machine Vision - not a listed company

my number 1 in the sector is Teledyne

Magnets & Materials

MP Materials

$6501 (+0,41 %)
Hitachi Metals (JP) - Magnetic materials

VacuumSchmelze (DE) - Magnetic materials - not a listed company

$4063 (+0,49 %)
Shin-Etsu Chemical (JP) - Specialty materials

my number 1 in the sector is MP Materials

Chip Design & Simulation

Synopsys - Cadence - ARM

$SIE (+0,59 %)
Siemens EDA (DE/US)-Mentor Graphics-strategic business unit of Siemens AG

Imagination Tech (UK) - GPU-IP - not a listed company

$CEVA (+2,04 %)
CEVA (IL) - Signal Processor IP

my number 1 in the sector is Synopsys

Engineering & Lifecycle

PTC - Dassault - Siemens

Altair (US) - Simulation - no longer a listed company

$HXGBY (+0,51 %)
Hexagon (SE) - Metrology

$SNPS (+8,73 %)
ANSYS (US) - Simulation - takeover by Synopsys

my number 1 in the sector is Siemens

Networks & Data Centers

Arista - Cisco - Equinix

$HPE (+1,55 %)
Juniper (US) - Networks - Acquisition of HPE

$DTE (+0,28 %)
T-Systems (DE) - Industry cloud

$OVH (+4,44 %)
OVHcloud (FR) - European cloud

my number 1 in the sector is Arista

Cloud infrastructure

AWS - Azure - Google Cloud

$ORCL (-5,06 %)
Oracle Cloud (US) - ERP & databases

$IBM (-0,13 %)
IBM Cloud (US) - Hybrid Cloud

$9988 (+8,51 %)
Alibaba Cloud (CN) - Asian Cloud

$VRT
Vertiv Holdings (US) - Cloud/Infra

my number 1 in the sector is Alphabet (Google)

finance/information infra

S&P Global

$MCO
Moody's (US) - Ratings

$MSCI (+2,67 %)
MSCI (US) - Indices

$MORN
Morningstar (US) - Investment Research

my number 1 in the sector is S&P Global

Creative/Experience Infra

Adobe

$ADSK (-0,29 %)
Autodesk (US) - CAD & Design

$U
Unity (US) - 3D/AR simulation

Epic Games (US) - Unreal Engine - not a listed company

my number 1 in the sector is Adobe

Platform & Ecosystem

Apple - Tencent - Alibaba

$META (-0,46 %)
Meta (US) - AR/VR, Social Robotics

ByteDance (CN) - AI & platforms - not a listed company

$9888 (+4,03 %)
Baidu (CN) - AI & Cloud

my number 1 in the sector is Tencent

Infrastructure/Edge

Dell

$HPE (+1,55 %)
HPE (US) - Edge Computing

$SMCI
Supermicro (US) - AI servers

$6702 (+0,92 %)
Fujitsu (JP) - Edge & HPC

my number 1 in the sector is Dell

storage solutions

Micron

$000660
SK Hynix (KR) - Memory

$285A (+19,8 %)
Kioxia (JP) - NAND

$WDC
Western Digital (US) - Storage solutions

my number 1 in the sector is Micron

🏛 3. secondary key sectors with hidden champions

Financing & Capital

$GS (+1,35 %) Goldman Sachs (US) - investment bank; ECM/DCM, M&A, growth financing

$MS Morgan Stanley (US) - investment bank; tech banking, capital markets

$BLK (+1,96 %) BlackRock (US) - asset manager; capital allocation, ETFs/index funds

$9984 (+8,01 %) SoftBank Vision Fund (JP) - mega VC; growth equity in robotics/AI

Sequoia Capital (US) - venture capital; early/growth in AI/robotics - this is a classic venture capital fund

DARPA (US) - government R&D funding (robotics/defense) - independent research and development agency

EU Horizon (EU) - research funding/grants for DeepTech - Innovative Europe pillar

China State Funds (CN) - state industry/technology fund

Lux Capital (US) - VC for DeepTech - Uptake (US) - AI-based predictive maintenance

DCVC (US) - Robotics & AI focus - investing exclusively via VC fund investments

Speedinvest (AT) - EU VC for robotics - access to investment only via fund investments

my number 1 in the sector is Softbank

Maintenance & Service

$SIE (+0,59 %) Siemens (DE) - Industrial Service, Lifecycle & Retrofit

$ABBN (+0,51 %) ABB (CH/SE) - Robotics Service, Spare Parts, Field Support

$GEHC (+1,38 %) GE Healthcare (US) - Medtech service incl. robotic systems

Uptake (US) - AI-based predictive maintenance - not a listed company

Augury (US/IL) - condition monitoring, condition diagnostics - not a listed company

$KU2 KUKA Service (DE) - Robotics maintenance

$6954 (+1,45 %) Fanuc Service (JP) - global service network

Boston Dynamics AI Institute (US) - Robotics longevity - funded by Hyundai Motor Group

my number 1 in the sector is Siemens

Marketing & Advertising

$WPP (-0,22 %) WPP (UK) - global advertising group; branding/communications

$OMC Omnicom (US) - marketing/PR network

$PUB (+0,15 %) Publicis (FR) - communications/advertising group

$META (-0,46 %) Meta (US) - Digital Ads (Facebook/Instagram)

$GOOG (-0,27 %) Google Ads (US) - search & display advertising

TikTok / ByteDance (CN) - social ads & distribution - not a listed company

$AAPL (+0,41 %) Apple (US) - Branding/UX; Acceptance & Platform Marketing

$WPP (-0,22 %)
AKQA (UK/US) - Tech branding - Since 2012 majority owned by the WPP Groupbut continues to operate as an autonomous operating unit

R/GA (US) - Innovation marketing - not a listed company

Serviceplan (DE) - largest independent EU agency - not a listed company

my number 1 in the sector is Meta

Law, Regulation & Ethics

ISO (CH) - international standards, robotics standards

TÜV (DE) - certification & safety tests

UL (US) - safety/conformity testing

EU AI Act (EU) - legal framework for AI & robotics

UNESCO AI Ethics (UN) - global ethics guidelines

Fraunhofer IPA (DE) - Robotics safety standards

ANSI (US) - standards

IEC (CH) - Electrical engineering standards

Training & Talent

MIT (US) - Robotics/AI Research & Education

ETH Zurich (CH) - autonomous systems & robotics

Stanford (US) - AI/Robotics labs & spin-offs

Tsinghua University (CN) - Robotics/AI in Asia

CMU (US) - Robotics Institute

EPFL (CH) - Robotics research

TU Munich (DE) - humanoid robot "Roboy"

🌍 Top 25 companies for humanoid robotics

These companies are central to the development & production of humanoid robotsbecause without them, crucial parts of the chain would be missing:

Chips & computing power (brain of the robots)

$NVDA (-0,42 %) Nvidia (US) - AI GPUs & Isaac platform, foundation for robotic AI

$2330 TSMC (TW) - world's most important foundry, produces the AI chips

$ASML (+1,46 %) ASML (NL) - EUV lithography, indispensable for chip production

$005930 Samsung Electronics (KR) - memory, logic, foundry

$000660 SK Hynix (KR) - DRAM & NAND memory for AI

$MU (+9,4 %) Micron (US) - Memory solutions for AI workloads

my number 1 in the sector is ASML

Sensors & perception (senses of robots)

$SONY Sony (JP) - image sensors, market leader

$6861 (+0,43 %) Keyence (JP) - Industrial sensors & vision systems

$CGNX (+0,72 %) Cognex (US) - Machine Vision, precise image processing

my number 1 in the sector is Keyence

Actuators & motion (muscles of robots)

$IFX (+0,53 %) Infineon (DE) - power electronics, motor control

$6594 (+0,99 %) Nidec (JP) - World market leader for electric motors

$PH Parker-Hannifin (US) - hydraulics/pneumatics, motion technology

$6481 (+1,28 %) THK (JP) - Linear guides & actuators

my number 1 in the sector is Parker-Hannifin

Communication, cloud & infrastructure (nerves & data flow)

$QCOM (+1,47 %) Qualcomm (US) - Mobile & Edge Chips

$AMZN (-0,28 %) Amazon AWS (US) - Cloud & AI infrastructure

$MSFT (-0,13 %) Microsoft Azure (US) - Cloud, AI services

$CSCO (-0,27 %) Cisco (US) - Networks & Security

$VRT Vertiv Holdings (US) - Data Center Infrastructure

my number 1 in the sector is Microsoft

End Applications & Platforms (robots themselves)

$TSLA (+3,62 %) Tesla (US) - humanoid robot Optimus

$ABBN (+0,51 %) ABB (CH/SE) - Robotics & Automation

$6954 (+1,45 %) Fanuc (JP) - industrial robots & CNC systems

$7012 (+2,29 %) Kawasaki Heavy Industries (JP) - industrial robots

PAL Robotics (ES) - humanoid robots (TALOS, ARI, TIAGo) - not a listed company

Neura Robotics (DE) - cognitive humanoid robots - not a listed company

Universal Robots (DK) - cobots

my number 1 in the sector is Tesla

🇪🇺 Top 10 European key companies for humanoid robotics

$ASML (+1,46 %)
ASML (NL)

World market leader in EUV lithography - no modern chips for AI & robotics without ASML.

$IFX (+0,53 %) Infineon (DE)

Leading in power electronics & motor control - crucial for actuators of humanoid robots.

$STM (+0,9 %)
STMicroelectronics (FR/IT)

Sensors, microcontrollers & power chips - the basis for control & perception.

$SAP (-2,4 %)
SAP (DE)

ERP & data platforms, important for integrating humanoid robots into industrial processes.

$SIE (+0,59 %)
Siemens (DE)

Industrial software, automation, digital twin - key for engineering & lifecycle management.

$KU2 KUKA (EN)

Robotics pioneer, industrial robots & automation - know-how for humanoid motion mechanics.

PAL Robotics (ES) - not a listed company

Specialist for humanoid robots (TALOS, ARI, TIAGo), internationally used in research & service.

Neura Robotics (DE) - Not a listed company

Young high-tech company, develops cognitive humanoid robots with advanced AI (4NE-1).

Universal Robots (DK) - Not a listed company

Market leader for cobots - platform for safe human-robot collaboration.

Engineered Arts (UK) - not a listed company

Develops humanoid robots such as Amecaknown for realistic facial expressions & gestures - important for HRI (Human-Robot Interaction)

🌏 Top 10 Asian key companies for humanoid robotics

$2330
TSMC (Taiwan)

World's largest semiconductor foundry, produces high-end chips (e.g. Nvidia, AMD, Apple) - no AI hardware without TSMC.

$005930
Samsung Electronics (South Korea)

Foundry, memory, logic chips, image sensors - extremely broadly positioned in robotics components.

$000660
SK Hynix (KR) - Memory

$SONY
Sony (Japan)

Market leader in CMOS image sensors, essential for robotic vision & perception.

$6861 (+0,43 %)
Keyence (Japan)

Sensor technology & machine vision for industrial automation, widely used in robotics.

$6954 (+1,45 %)
Fanuc (Japan)

Industrial robots & CNC systems, one of the most important manufacturers of robotics hardware worldwide.

$6506 (+0,57 %)
Yaskawa Electric (Japan)

Drives, motion control & robot arms - relevant for humanoid motion control.

$6594 (+0,99 %)
Nidec (Japan)

World market leader for electric motors (from mini motors to high-performance drives).

$7012 (+2,29 %)
Kawasaki Heavy Industries (JP) - Industrial robots

$9618 (+1,86 %)
JD.com (China)

Driver for robotics in e-commerce & logistics, invests in humanoid robotics applications

Anyone have any idea what's going on at Intuitive Surgical $ISRG (+1,61 %) is going on? They recently presented decent figures, but the share price has been falling steadily since May 🧐

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$OSCR

According to Goldman Sachs, healthcare is the only sector in the S& P 500 that is cheaper than the 10- and 30-year averages.

This is an extremely attractive risk/reward ratio and the coming months will be exciting.

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$ISRG (+1,61 %)

The Diakonie Klinikum in Siegen has reached a milestone with its modern Da Vinci surgical robot. Under the direction of head physician Dr. Mahmoud Farzat, more than 2,000 operations have been successfully performed.

A good five years ago, the Diakonie Klinikum in Siegen invested in the high-tech Da Vinci surgical robot, a decision that proved to be groundbreaking for the urology department. Today, the team led by Head Physician Dr. Mahmoud Farzat can look back on over 2,000 robot-assisted operations. Dr. Farzat is proud: "The milestone of 2,000 robot-assisted operations in just over five years is a clear testament to the expertise and commitment of our entire team."

Robot-assisted surgery has established itself as a gentle surgical method, particularly for prostate, kidney and bladder cancer as well as other complex diseases of the urinary tract. "Thanks to the robot's fine motor skills and magnified view, we can precisely identify and operate on even the smallest structures," explains Dr. Farzat. This has already helped to treat over 1,000 prostate cancer patients and more than 200 bladder cancer and 300 kidney cancer patients.

With two Da Vinci surgical robots and an experienced team of surgeons, anaesthetists and nursing staff, Stilling is one of the larger centers of its kind in Germany. The clinic attracts patients from all over the country and abroad. The clinic is also committed to scientific research, regularly publishing papers and presenting its findings at specialist congresses. "This scientific work enables us to continuously improve our methods," emphasizes Dr. Farzat. (PM/Red)

https://www.ak-kurier.de/akkurier/www/artikel/158366-arzt-und-maschine-hand-in-hand--2-000-eingriffe-mit-op-roboter-im-diakonie-klinikum-in-siegen

TL;DR like to roast my deposit, appreciate all opinions!

I always find the many posts here and reading various biographies very interesting, so I've wanted to say a few words for a while now.

Tried early, but started late

I am now 32 and unfortunately started investing seriously far too late, studied far too long, and with the larger salaries finally built up as much as possible and tried to catch up as quickly as possible. "Unfortunately" means for the most part the past calendar year, which is why I put a large part of my money into shares at already high prices and then had very little cash left in the crash to add to it. Fully invested, in other words. During the crash, I mainly reallocated and continued to fully invest what was left over from my monthly salaries.

Yet back in 2011, at the age of 18, I had a share called Facebook and a Starbucks share in my portfolio without much of a clue. I just wanted to know what my mother was actually doing with her shares and how it worked, and with FB and Starbucks I simply chose two companies that "everyone" uses/needs anyway. The idea wasn't that stupid, it worked, and after a short time I was happy about the small profit in absolute terms, sold the shares at DiBa despite the high fees at the time and simply forgot about shares for years - wealth accumulation, a word that wasn't in my vocabulary, the money I had was simply turned upside down as a young adult. Well, young me, just leave the shares lying around or, even better, take a closer look at them and carry on, it "might" have been worth it...

Of priorities and wrong horses

The years went by without any shares, but with lots of fast food and partying, but at least things have changed. At some point, I started to think about the future and wealth accumulation, first taking an interest in interest rates, and then the logical next step was dividends and shares. Unfortunately, it started rather haphazardly. As a student, I started investing small amounts, and of course betting on the wrong horses. Speculative lithium shares were particularly bad in this phase, unfortunately these were large sums even by my standards, from my grandfather's estate. That was bad. However, crypto was a very good horse, more precisely $BTC (+0,29 %) and $ETH (+1,21 %) which (as a computer scientist) I became interested in early on and exited several times with high profits, also thanks to domestic mining. It's just stupid that back then, in the last decade, I would never have imagined how cryptos would develop. If I had, I would have simply left it all, or at least part of it. You learn and you're always smarter afterwards anyway.

Fully invested - excessive, unhealthy, or simply good housekeeping?

So now I'm 32 - and proud of a portfolio that I think I've built up to a good size in a relatively short time. Which has given me other ideas for some time now. I'm still a long way from reaching my goal, but I have to get back on the "invest 100%" path, which has been completely contrary to my past for a long time now, and strangely enough, I'm finding it difficult to do so - something to reflect on. There are too many (supposed?) opportunities every day. So I simply could not $UNH (+2,54 %) after a long period of observation yesterday and of course the savings plans had to run today too. I think I've always been good at budgeting, or let's put it this way, at least good at getting by with the money available to me in a perfectly timed way, but "indulging", not just in company shares, may become a little more prominent again. I don't go without noticeably in everyday life, I need very little, which I don't think is a bad quality to begin with. But I have changed a lot in the area of "consumption" compared to the past. I think it would be good to find a healthy balance. In my opinion, just as you don't just live to work, but work to live, the same applies to saving/investing. I actually read a post here on gq today that described exactly that and I could relate to it very well. So, reflection and taking your foot off the gas is allowed - no, it's a must! I am familiar with frugalists, but I never wanted to be one. I'd be interested to know if anyone else here feels the same way, or did?

Wrong decisions, mistakes... and (hopefully) the right conclusions

Back to the topic! (Not only) on the way to today's portfolio I have made many wrong decisions, as already mentioned, so I thought that a well-kept portfolio roast could do me some good. Other, new opinions and assessments can't be bad!

In particular, in the past I have often missed the opportunity to simply let profits run their course and instead dragged losses around with me for too long (which brings us back to lithium). A thought that I recently had again when I was thinking about when it would make sense to $HIMS (+4,72 %) possibly realize, as an example. $PLTR (-1,1 %) and $NVDA (-0,42 %) are two examples that, like so many others, I naturally had on my radar, but they always seemed too expensive, the setback never came and I really missed the big rallies as a result. At the same time, I also get caught out by FOMO from time to time. So in both good and bad phases, I try not to just see red or green, fear or hope, but simply to evaluate what actually makes sense "from now on". Sometimes you realize a loss in order to try your luck elsewhere, sometimes you should let profits run, sometimes take them, sometimes endure the dip, sometimes be courageous and sometimes defensive. Easier said than done. I find it very nice and helpful to exchange ideas on this platform and how open and "yet" respectful it generally is. Of course, I will most likely never reach some portfolio sizes, but you can always learn something about how some people manage their portfolios, regardless of the absolute figures. You will always make mistakes, but at least you should deal with them correctly and draw the best possible conclusions.

Portfolio restructuring, planned investments / savings plans

And today? After some evaluation, research, regrouping and restructuring, I now have fewer, but still quite a few positions in different sectors, most of which are already of a decent and roughly balanced size. My medium-term plan is now to build up all positions to a certain target size. This is why I am currently running savings plans:

$MPWR (-2,98 %)

$AVGO (-2,1 %)

$ISRG (+1,61 %)

$DXCM (+0,08 %)

$DHR (+0,39 %)

$ALV (+0,63 %)

$9988 (+8,51 %)

$BRK.B (+0,75 %)

$APH (-0,15 %)

$MELI (+0,08 %)

$BLK (+1,96 %)

$RSG (+0,52 %)

$DGE (-0,89 %)

$VKTX (+0,25 %)

ETF/ETC:

$UBU7 (+0,52 %)

$EWG2 (-0,51 %)

Partly with small weekly amounts, until enough cash is available to fill the target position evenly. With $AVGO (-2,1 %) for example, there is not much left. Also $BRK.B (+0,75 %) / $APH (-0,15 %) and others are already approaching the target. In some cases with somewhat larger sums for still small but prioritized positions, until opportunities and/or resources for individual purchases arise, such as the $ALV (+0,63 %) and $RSG (+0,52 %) should be mentioned here, as well as $DGE (-0,89 %) as a turnaround candidate.

Once the aforementioned positions are full, I would like to turn my attention to the more defensive candidates that are already in the portfolio but which I am currently prioritizing - $MCD (+0,42 %) / $KO (-0,09 %) / $CCEP (+1,51 %) / $ULVR (+0,41 %) and others - and finally increase the ETF and gold share in the long term.

$VKTX (+0,25 %) is a bit of a gamble, as I have actually said goodbye to pharma - $ABBV (+3,94 %) / $NOVO B (-0,96 %) / $LLY (+0,14 %) and $MRK (+0,84 %) were still part of the inventory until recently. Instead, I decided to go with $DXCM (+0,08 %) / $ISRG (+1,61 %) / $DHR (+0,39 %) on medical technology.

$BTC (+0,29 %) remains a fixed value in the portfolio, while I $ETH (+1,21 %) (incorrectly entered due to staking - around 0.4 shares or €1000) and $XRP (+0,2 %) would/will sell at corresponding prices.

I still lack around €15,000 in individual stocks at current prices to bring all positions to the current desired/dream target. This will take some time, but is foreseeable. And then I would be really quite proud and happy "as things stand now"! In any case, I now feel very comfortable on the path I have chosen and, as I said, I have to stop myself from forgetting that not all money has to be invested all the time.

Savings rate

To put this into figures, I have averaged a savings rate of around €1500 over the last 24 months, with an average of €100 a month in dividends. 1400€ investment, that's about 82% of my monthly budget after deducting all "unavoidable" fixed costs including fuel and household, but not including consumption such as clothes, going out or vacations. Exaggerated, I can't say otherwise myself. But at least I have a good reason to step on the gas and get the compound interest going.

So what is all this for?

In the long term, my girlfriend and I dream of owning a property somewhere on the Croatian Adriatic, her homeland, and where I was able to spend many wonderful weeks with my parents every year as a child. A beautiful region that I consider an important part of my life, with many great moments and memories that may become even more. I hope to get closer to this goal "quickly" with the depot. The language is already halfway there! :)

In the long term, this would probably involve a little reallocation into value dividend payers, which should help with repayment. However, I would also like to lay the foundations for later distributions today, without neglecting growth. There is probably no perfect mix for this, but you are welcome to rate mine.

So, unfortunately I was once again unable to be brief. Thank you for reading, whoever has made it this far, and for your comments! I'm very excited and wish you all a great weekend.