BOTT vs ROBO

BOTTBThemes Humanoid Robotics ETF

ROBOCROBO Global Robotics and Automation Index ETF

In short

BOTT Most robotics funds buy the whole factory floor. BOTT buys the androids: about 30 global names across the humanoid and service robot value chain, at 0.35% a year.

ROBO Robotics as an index, since 2013. ROBO holds roughly 80 automation and robotics names worldwide and tracks the Robo-Stox index it was named for: long-tenured, broadly spread, and priced at the premium end of its group.

Stated mandate

BOTT The Fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, an index of companies deriving significant revenue from designing and developing humanoid and service robots.

ROBO The Fund seeks to track, before fees and expenses, the price and yield performance of the Robo-Stox Global Robotics and Automation Index. It normally invests at least 80% of total assets in securities of that Index or related depositary receipts.

Why people hold it

• BOTT At 0.35% it undercuts the typical robotics and automation ETF (median 0.65%) and every peer ranked above it: IBOT at 0.47%, FBOT and FDIF at 0.50%.
• A true pure play. Its index, the Solactive Global Humanoid Robotics Index, targets companies building humanoid and service robots, not the broad factory automation basket.themesetfs.com
• Global mandate, about 30 names. Tight enough that the humanoid theme actually shows up in the portfolio instead of getting buried under mega-cap ballast.themesetfs.com
• Sits in the upper half of its robotics and automation peer group, one of the stronger builds of a very young theme.

• ROBO Trading since 2013 and now a billion-dollar-plus fund, with moderate day-to-day volume and one of the smoother execution profiles in the robotics cohort.
• About 80 holdings spread across global markets, one of the better-diversified baskets in its peer group rather than a bet on three or four megacaps.
• The prospectus pins at least 80% of assets to its named index, so you get a published rulebook for what counts as robotics, not a manager's rotating definition.

Worth knowing

• BOTT Lightly traded next to the category's giants, so spreads can be wider and bigger orders need more care at the point of trade.
• Short file: the fund launched in 2024 and Themes relaunched it with the humanoid focus in 2025, so there is little live history to judge.globenewswire.com
• About 30 stocks in one early-stage theme is concentrated, swingy exposure, and cash comes back to you once or twice a year at most.

• ROBO At 0.95% a year, it charges above the robotics-fund median (near 0.65%) and well above leaner builds like BOTT at 0.35% or IBOT at 0.47%.
• One theme, many currencies. Robotics and automation stocks tend to move together, and the global holdings add exchange-rate swings on top.
• Distributions land once or twice a year at most. This is a growth-theme equity basket, not an income holding.

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