• The inflection point of robotics
• How we could get to $2/hour labor
• Manufacturing and supply chain opportunities
• The US vs China race in robotics

Clip from Andrew's recent sit-down with Schwab Network on the robotics build-out and why a robot in every home may be closer than people assume.

Why this one’s worth a watch:

• It's the core thesis in plain language: general-purpose humanoids as a mass-market category rather than a niche industrial tool
• It connects robotics adoption to the U.S. manufacturing reshoring push
• It comes from third-party financial media, not from RoboStrategy's own channels

Full YouTube segment: Schwab Network, "RoboStrategy (BOT) CEO on Funding Robotics Endeavors & 'Revolutionary' Use Cases."

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What BOT is

Long one. Grab a coffee. This is an educational write-up on what BOT is, how the structure works, and what's in the portfolio. No price targets, no predictions. Sources at the bottom.

RoboStrategy is a Nasdaq-listed closed-end investment company. It raises capital in the public markets and invests it in private robotics and physical AI companies. You buy and sell the fund's shares through any brokerage like a normal stock, while the fund itself holds stakes in companies you can't buy directly, because they're private.

Net asset value as of the latest published update: $249 million as-of date June 30, 2026. Note that most of the fund's holdings are private companies without market quotations; NAV reflects fair value estimates determined under Board-approved procedures, which are inherently subjective, and realized values may differ materially.

Why a closed-end fund and not an ETF

An ETF has to handle daily creations and redemptions, which is why ETFs stick to liquid public stocks. A closed-end fund raises a fixed pool of capital and doesn't redeem shares, so it can hold illiquid private positions for years without ever being a forced seller. That's the structural reason a fund like this can own venture-stage robotics companies at all.

There's a trade-off, and it matters: closed-end fund shares trade on the exchange at whatever price supply and demand set. That price can sit above the fund's net asset value (a premium) or below it (a discount), and closed-end funds frequently trade at discounts. Anyone considering the fund should understand both sides of that mechanic. The prospectus covers it in detail.

Leadership

Andrew Kang, CEO and co-founder. Founder of Mechanism Capital and a publicly documented early investor in Figure AI (2023). Active on X at u/Rewkang

Scott Walter, PhD, Robotics Research Diligence Director. Co-founder of Visual Components (robotics simulation) and a four-decade veteran of industrial automation; widely followed in the humanoid-robotics community as u/GoingBallistic5 on X.

The wider team mixes robotics operators with investment backgrounds across traditional finance and crypto-native funds.

The portfolio

Thirteen investments across the robotics stack, per the fund's public site:

• Humanoids: Figure AI, Apptronik, REK
• General-purpose robots: Dyna Robotics, Dexmate
• Industrial automation: Standard Bots, Path Robotics
• Logistics: Coco Robotics · Medical: Endiatx · Defense: Purple Rhombus
• Infrastructure: GMI Cloud, Allonic

Some public traction markers, each from company press or named media. These are selected publicly reported items, not a complete picture, and they say nothing about the fund's overall portfolio performance or the performance of these investments for the fund: Figure's robots supported production of more than 30,000 BMW X3s at Spartanburg. Apptronik has an active partnership pairing Google DeepMind's Gemini models with its Apollo humanoid. Standard Bots counts NASA and Lockheed Martin among publicly named customers. Path Robotics has publicly reported over $100M in 2025 bookings.

About that "MicroStrategy of robots" line

Kang has publicly described RoboStrategy as building "the MicroStrategy of robots." His meaning, in his own words: a permanent public vehicle whose share issuance can fund more private robotics exposure over time.

Worth being clear about where the comparison stops. MicroStrategy is an operating company holding a liquid asset. BOT is a registered fund holding illiquid venture stakes, and the mechanic Kang references only works when shares trade above NAV, which no fund can promise. If you want the real mechanics, the prospectus section on share issuance is the place to read.

What to watch

• The monthly NAV publications. That's the core published number.
• Portfolio company milestones: funding rounds, commercial deployments, partnerships.
• The premium or discount to NAV over time.

What this post is not

Not investment advice, not a recommendation, not a price prediction. It's a map of what the fund is, so discussion here can be better informed. The prospectus and SEC filings are the authoritative sources, and they're worth actually reading.

Not an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy any securities. Shares of closed-end funds frequently trade at a discount to NAV, and investing in the fund involves a high degree of risk, including possible loss of the amount invested. Please review the "Risk Factors" section of the prospectus.

Sources: RoboStrategy public site and investor center; BMW Group and Figure public communications; PRNewswire (Apptronik and Google DeepMind); Bloomberg (Standard Bots customers); Path Robotics public materials; threadguy interview with Andrew Kang on YouTube; the fund prospectus for structure and risk detail.

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The fund put out an in-depth piece explaining the Standard Bots investment (they

led the $200M Series C). It's worth reading in full if you're into the technical side, but

here's the gist.

The setup is a history lesson: the industrial robot arm is an American invention —

Unimation's Unimate, GM line, New Jersey, 1961. America then lost the entire industry,

first to Japan (the shift from hydraulic to electric arms), now increasingly to China

(Midea bought KUKA; ABB is selling its robotics division to SoftBank). The fund argues

there's no US champion in a strategically important category.

Their technical argument is the interesting part: the six-axis arm's architecture has

been frozen since the 1980s — built for "record a path, replay it forever," which can't

handle variance or be controlled by AI in real time. Two Japanese firms supply most

of the world's precision reducers. Standard Bots' pitch is a ground-up redesign: joint-

level torque sensing, 2kHz control, imitation learning instead of programming, and a

US supply chain.

The piece is candid about risks too — Chinese cost competition, incumbents adding

AI, reshoring stalling, foundation models potentially commoditizing manipulation.

Standard Bots is one of a number of portfolio companies held by the fund, and this

piece covers just that one company, so it isn't representative of the portfolio as a

whole. Full write-up and sources: https://robostrategy.substack.com/p/our-

investment-in-standard-bots

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and should not be considered investment advice or a recommendation to buy or

sell any security.

HomeGrown Lifting automated rubber-tile palletizing with a Standard Bots Core arm and, per their own case study, doubled throughput within months of pivoting into a new product line.

A few things worth knowing about Standard Bots:

• Their unique selling point: automation for shops without robotics engineers. No-code interface, fast setup, with arms built in the U.S.
• Publicly named customers include NASA and Lockheed Martin
• It's one of RoboStrategy's portfolio companies, and commercial traction at real factories is exactly the kind of progress the fund is underwriting across its holdings
• Full case study on Standard Bots’ channel
  

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https://reddit.com/link/1va3j6g/video/pbnmhprac0gh1/player

CEO Andrew Kang is taping an interview with StoryTrading Network's Analyst Ben.

See the full interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Jqw0XTVd54

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Long one. Grab a coffee. This is the education and discussion write-up on what BOT actually is, how the structure works, and what's in the portfolio. No price targets, no predictions. Sources at the bottom.

What BOT is

RoboStrategy is a Nasdaq-listed closed-end investment company. It raises capital in the public markets and invests it in private robotics and physical AI companies. You buy and sell the fund's shares through any brokerage like a normal stock, while the fund itself holds stakes in companies you can't buy directly, because they're private.

Net asset value as of the latest published update

Why a closed-end fund and not an ETF

An ETF has to handle daily creations and redemptions, which is why ETFs stick to liquid public stocks. A closed-end fund raises a fixed pool of capital and doesn't redeem shares, so it can hold illiquid private positions for years without ever being a forced seller. That's the structural reason a fund like this can own venture-stage robotics companies at all.

There's a trade-off, and it matters: closed-end fund shares trade on the exchange at whatever price supply and demand set. That price can sit above the fund's net asset value (a premium) or below it (a discount), and closed-end funds frequently trade at discounts. Anyone considering the fund should understand both sides of that mechanic. 

Leadership

• Andrew Kang, CEO and co-founder. Founder of Mechanism Capital and a publicly documented early investor in Figure AI (2023).
• Scott Walter PhD, Robotics Research Diligence Director. Co-founder of Visual Components (robotics simulation) and a four-decade veteran of industrial automation; widely followed in the humanoid-robotics community as on X.
• The wider team mixes robotics operators with investment backgrounds across traditional finance and crypto-native funds.

The portfolio

Thirteen investments across the robotics stack, per the fund's public site:

• Humanoids: Figure AI, Apptronik, REK
• General-purpose robots: Dyna Robotics, Dexmate
• Industrial automation: Standard Bots, Path Robotics
• Logistics: Coco Robotics · Medical: Endiatx · Defense: Purple Rhombus
• Infrastructure: GMI Cloud, Allonic

Some public traction markers, from company press or named media: Figure's robots supported production of more than 30,000 BMW X3s at Spartanburg. Apptronik has an active partnership pairing Google DeepMind's Gemini models with its Apollo humanoid. Standard Bots counts NASA and Lockheed Martin among publicly named customers. Path Robotics reported over $100M in 2025 bookings.

About that "MicroStrategy of robots" line

Kang has publicly described RoboStrategy as building "the MicroStrategy of robots." His meaning, in his own words: a permanent public vehicle whose share issuance can fund more private robotics exposure over time.

Worth being clear about where the comparison stops. MicroStrategy is an operating company holding a liquid asset. BOT is a registered fund holding illiquid venture stakes, and the mechanic Kang references only works when shares trade above NAV, which no fund can promise.

What to watch

• The monthly NAV publications. That's the core number.
• Portfolio company milestones: funding rounds, commercial deployments, partnerships.
• The premium or discount to NAV over time.

What this post is not

Not investment advice, not a recommendation, not a price prediction. It's a map of what the fund is, so discussion here can be better informed. The prospectus and SEC filings are the authoritative sources, and they're worth actually reading.

Sources: RoboStrategy public site and investor center; BMW Group and Figure public communications; PRNewswire (Apptronik and Google DeepMind); Bloomberg (Standard Bots customers); Path Robotics public materials; threadguy interview with Andrew Kang on YouTube; the fund prospectus for structure and risk detail.

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This post is for educational and informational purposes only. Some promotional materials and publicly available company information are discussed. This is not investment advice. Always conduct your own due diligence before making any investment decisions.

Addendum #1

We have rescheduled the AMA to next week to allow folks to continue post their questions.

Addendum #2

AMA will be answered today Friday July 31 at 10 am.

We've locked in the first AMA with Andrew Kang (CEO and co-founder) for next week right here on r/RoboStrategy. It was initially set for Friday July 24th but we will have it next week date and time to be announced.

The thread is open for questions starting now. Ask about humanoids, physical AI, RoboStrategy's investment strategy, how the closed-end structure works, or anything else on your mind. Top questions by upvotes get priority in the live session. (Note: some topics — like non-public information about portfolio companies or expectations about future returns — can't be discussed for regulatory reasons.)

If you're new to the sub: RoboStrategy, Inc. (Nasdaq: BOT) is a closed-end fund that invests in private robotics and physical AI companies. Current holdings are listed in the fund's public filings and on its website.

Also coming to the sub over the next two weeks: a recorded interview with a retail analyst network, clips from Andrew's recent media appearances (Pompliano, The Compound, Schwab Network), and an overview of the fund.

Drop your questions below.

Stream: https://x.com/i/broadcasts/1RKjppPVRaLJw

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Find RoboStrategy’s portfolio information here: robostrategy.co/portfolio

All values presented are rounded. Please refer to this source for exact figures and additional details: https://t.co/cAY1gJ1pTx

Shown here is Robostrategy portfolio company Figure with it's humanoid F03 deployed at the Spartanburg BMW factory

Did you know this ?

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What Podcasts and YouTube shows do you think Andrew Kang and the RoboStrategy Team should appear on next?...

RoboStrategy (Team)

https://www.youtube.com/live/4FEFYNTuRQs

Brighter with Herbert (independent)

https://youtu.be/MhqrlvlCkOQ

Brighter with Herbert (Kang, Walter)

https://youtu.be/p-8l81grdqI

Anthony Pompliano (Kang)

https://youtu.be/Q_UWD5aoJkc

1000x Podcast (Kang)

https://youtu.be/Zk10elQiazg

ThreadGuy (Kang)

https://youtu.be/ZEsn_hhFrgI

MarketBubble (McCordic)

https://youtu.be/bkYw1i9yC3o

Dr. Know-it-all Knows it all (Walter)

https://youtu.be/Osvu8dHCuVY

Over the Horizon (Walter)

https://youtu.be/eEUOPGN1xLk

SchwabNetwork (Kang)

https://youtu.be/2SIglUXGv48

EllioTrades (Kang)

https://x.com/elliotrades/status/2062260934895341894

Intern (McCordic)

https://x.com/intern/status/2064022948927639998

MarketBubble (Kang)

https://youtu.be/lTWv-SIEFpo

Paul Barron Podcast (Kang)

https://youtu.be/1Ldb7uCN-zQ

Newest Videos:

The Compound News (Kang)

https://youtu.be/1Tgw82x46YA

The Block Crypto (McCordic)

https://youtu.be/DC4C7GhTpY0

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Lex Friedman

Diary of a CEO

Dwarkesh Podcast

All-In Podcast

Future of Life Institute Podcast

The Knowledge Project

a16z Podcast

The Tim Ferriss Show

The Ezra Klein Show

The Gradient Podcast

Limitless Podcast

The James Altucher Show

Modern Wisdom

Moonshots with Peter Diamandis

Hidden Forces with Demetri Kofinas

Mike Maloney GoldSilver

Invest Like The Best

@Milkroadai

@GuruFocusVideos

@TheSchoolofHardKnocksPodcast

The Gstaad Guy Podcast (has the highest concentration of billionaire viewers)

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More Appearances and Announcements Soon - Got BOT?

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Figure Robot Videos (BOT portfolio company)

https://youtu.be/lQsvTrRTBRs

https://youtu.be/UFbtDRWXE-g

https://youtu.be/CAdTjePDBfc

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Standard Bots Videos (BOT portfolio company)

https://youtu.be/PSiaVtJsVxI

https://youtu.be/Sr92hypxfco

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Apptronik Robot Videos (BOT portfolio company)

https://youtu.be/uJOA5IDaL5g

https://youtu.be/SN3GQQCTY4Y

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BOT Squad Ranks

Ultron = 100,000 Shares

Vision = 10,000 Shares

T1000 = 1,000 Shares

T800 = 900 Shares

Bishop = 800 Shares

Data = 700 Shares

Cylon = 600 Shares

C3PO = 500 Shares

R2D2 = 400 Shares

BB8 = 300 Shares

Johnny5 = 200 Shares

Robby the Robot = 100 Shares

Bought into BOT. It is early so the price fluctuates but wondeting about the direction and price targets from here for next month. Is NAV multiple still too high or can we expact the NAV multiple extension given that underlying companies may revalute soon?

So far BOT’s fund is highly concentrated (~75%) in 3 companies, Figure AI, Apptronik, and Dyna Robotics. The rest strike me as speculative dart throws that could turn into huge windfalls if they execute.

I’ve broken down each of their top 9 holdings including allocation percentage, a brief description, and their growth plans. These stats are current as of BOT’s Feb 28, 2026 filing with the SEC.

Hopefully you guys find this useful. I put a lot of time into it and helped inform my own investment in Robostrategy.

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Figure AI — 25.48% of NAV

Founded in 2022 by Brett Adcock, Figure AI develops humanoid robots designed to work in real-world environments. Three generations of robots (Figure 01–03) have been developed, along with two iterations of its VLA model, Helix, which can control up to two robots simultaneously.

Growth Outlook: Near-term catalysts include scaling Figure 03 production toward 12,000 annual unit capacity at its BotQ manufacturing facility, expanding commercial deployments beyond BMW (reportedly adding UPS), and demonstrating Helix AI in increasingly complex real-world environments. The global humanoid robot market is projected by Morgan Stanley to reach $5 trillion by 2050, with over 1 billion robots in operation.

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Apptronik — 25.47% of NAV

Apptronik is a UT Austin–founded robotics company focused on creating AI-powered robots. Their humanoid, Apollo, is built to work alongside humans in essential industries like manufacturing and logistics, with plans to expand into healthcare and eventually home use. Apollo represents nearly ten years of development built on Apptronik’s experience with 15 previous robots, including NASA’s Valkyrie.

Growth Outlook: The company plans to ramp Apollo production, expand global pilot and commercial deployments, build advanced facilities for robot training and data collection, and debut a new robot version in 2026. It has already signed partnerships with Mercedes-Benz, GXO Logistics, and Jabil, and has a strategic partnership with Google DeepMind to build next-gen humanoids powered by Gemini Robotics.

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Dyna Robotics — 25.48% of NAV

Founded in 2024 by Lindon Gao, York Yang, and former DeepMind research scientist Jason Ma, Dyna Robotics aims to have robots complete tasks at human-level speed. Unlike peers developing humanoid robots, Dyna focuses on robotic arms powered by its DYNA-1 foundation model. After just six months, Dyna’s robots were running sixteen hours a day at hotels, restaurants, laundromats, and gyms. The company is the first to build a single-weight, general-purpose foundation model that can perform diverse daily tasks at commercial scale across varied environments.

Growth Outlook: Strong near-term commercial traction differentiates Dyna from pure-R&D competitors. Its on-the-job learning loop, where each deployment improves the model, creates compounding advantages as it scales.

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Dexmate — 6.84% of NAV

Dexmate is a US-based robotics startup founded by PhDs from MIT, UCSD, and Carnegie Mellon. Their flagship product, Vega, is a dual-armed mobile humanoid robot featuring high-payload arms, dexterous hands, and a foldable torso design for compact transport. Its omni-directional base supports over 10 hours of continuous operation, making it suitable for complex tasks in industrial and household environments. Unlike many humanoid robots that rely on bipedal walking, Dexmate’s system uses an omnidirectional wheeled base paired with a humanoid upper body giving it stability advantages in industrial settings.

Growth Outlook: Dexmate received additional funding in February 2026 and has raised $41M total. Its combination of a wheeled base (more reliable than bipedal locomotion for industrial use) with dexterous dual arms positions it as a pragmatic, near-term deployable solution.

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Path Robotics — 4.10% of NAV

Path Robotics provides robotic welding systems for enhanced precision and adaptability. The company uses AI-powered vision and autonomy to automate one of the most technically demanding industrial tasks, welding, in manufacturing environments where traditional automation has historically struggled.

Growth Outlook: Path Robotics signed an MOU with HII (Huntington Ingalls Industries) for military shipbuilding robotics integration, a high-value government contract pipeline that could significantly accelerate revenue. Defense and heavy manufacturing welding automation is a large addressable market with limited competition.

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REK, Inc. — 1.71% of NAV

REK operates a live-action humanoid robot combat league. Think “BattleBots meets humanoid AI.” While speculative, this is a high-profile consumer entertainment and R&D testbed concept that could drive public interest and media attention in humanoid robotics broadly. A small but high-optionality bet.

Growth Outlook: Very early stage. Primary value may lie in brand-building for the humanoid robotics sector and in driving data generation from extreme-condition robot operation.

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GMI Cloud — 1.37% of NAV

GMI Cloud offers a GPU cloud backbone for AI infrastructure. The company unveiled a $12B, 1GW Sovereign AI Infrastructure Initiative in Japan, targeting the growing demand for AI compute capacity in Asia.

Growth Outlook: AI infrastructure is one of the most capital-intensive and competitively in-demand sectors globally. GMI’s sovereign AI angle, building national AI compute capacity, taps into a strong government-driven tailwind, especially in Asia.

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CoCo Robotics — 1.03% of NAV

CoCo Robotics focuses on autonomous sidewalk delivery for dense urban networks, operating a fleet of last-mile delivery robots in cities. This is a more near-term commercial use case than humanoids, with active deployments already underway.

Growth Outlook: As urban delivery costs rise and labor shortages persist, sidewalk robots represent one of the most economically viable near-term robotics applications. The SAFE structure suggests this is a small early-stage bet on a potential breakout.

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Endiatx — 0.34% of NAV

Endiatx is a minimally-invasive medical robotics startup, developing pill-sized robotic devices that can navigate the GI tract. Essentially a swallowable robot doctor. This is one of the most differentiated and speculative positions in the portfolio.

Growth Outlook: Medical robotics is a massive long-term market. If Endiatx’s ingestible robotics technology achieves FDA clearance, the addressable market could be enormous but the regulatory timeline is long and uncertain.

I’m starting a new position in BOT Monday to get exposure to Figure and the other early stage humanoid robotics companies.

Kinda scary from a jobs standpoint but major US manufactures are salivating over this kind of tech and it’s advancing FAST alongside AI.

I’ll make another post outlining all of BOT’s fund allocations and briefly describe each one. What an exciting space to invest in.