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Theme · 02 ★ Refreshed 22 May · NVDA validated

Physical AI.

The mechanical & motion picks-and-shovels behind every humanoid, robotaxi and autonomous platform. NVIDIA's GR00T + Isaac + Cosmos = the compute platform. The 0 names in this basket = the wafers, drives, gears, sensors and magnets it actually runs on.

You cannot 3D-print a strain-wave gear. You cannot software your way past an NdFeB magnet. Every humanoid in the field today carries 24-40 actuators, 60+ sensors, ~3kg of rare-earth magnetics and a sensor-fusion FPGA that nobody else makes. Physical AI is a six-layer mechanical stack — and unlike the GPU race, the bottlenecks here have decade-long lead times.

Today's reads

★ NVDA Q1 FY27 print (May 20): Physical AI revenue >$9B TTM · Edge Computing $6.4B Q1 +29% YoY · Uber robotaxi 2028. Our prior robotics report (38 names) validated by Jensen's framing — and was conservative.

Theme stats
As at 22 May 06:00 Dubai
Names tracked
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Tier A
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Tier B
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Tier C
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Layers
6
YTD return
+32.1%
★ Jensen's May 20 Q1 FY27 call · validated

Our robotics thesis survived the earnings test — and was conservative.

We mapped the 38-name Physical AI basket on May 14. Six days later Jensen ran the same playbook on the earnings call. The framework was right — what surprised us was the velocity. We modelled this as a 2027-28 P&L story; the print shows it is already a $9B TTM line two years ahead of the curve.

Physical AI TTM rev
>$9B
first hard number disclosed
Edge Computing Q1
$6.4B
+29% YoY · new segment
Uber robotaxi
2028
~30 cities · 4 continents
Software stack
6 products
GR00T · Isaac · Cosmos · Thor · Alpamayo · NuRec
02 · 04The robotics stack

From motor to manipulation.

Six physical layers behind every humanoid and robotaxi.

ALL 0 L0 · Platforms 6 L1 · Actuators ★ 8 L2 · Compute / FPGA 5 L3 · Sensors 9 L4 · Materials & power 3 L5 · System Integrators 10