Interested in Humanoid Robot Stocks? You Might Consider Buying This Humanoid Robotics ETF

Humanoid robots -- along with fully driverless vehicles -- are widely viewed among artificial intelligence (AI) experts as one of the Next Big Things in AI. Once limited to science fiction media, they are now being rapidly developed. Humanoids are AI-powered machines that resemble the human form and move and communicate similarly to humans.

Artificial intelligence -driven applications are improving at lightning speed. Indeed, Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) CEO Jensen Huang is a huge believer that the humanoid robot boom is coming.

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In January 2025, during CES 2025, Huang opined that, in "less than 10 years," he was "certain" that humanoid robots would surprise everyone with how good they would be. With big money pouring into humanoid development, I think the timeline could be shorter for humanoids performing repetitive manual labor within a specified area, such as a factory.

In October 2025, I wrote The Best Humanoid Robot Stocks to Buy or Put on Your Watch List . I highlighted Nvidia (which has ramped up its humanoid robot development platform since 2024), Tesla (developing Optimus), Hyundai Motor Group (owns an 80% stake in mobile robot maker Boston Dynamics), and Hon Hai Precision (known as Foxconn), which is partnering with Nvidia to build a plant in Texas that will build AI supercomputers and eventually deploy humanoid robots.

But at this early stage, no publicly traded company seems to be generating significant revenue from the sale of humanoid robots or components used to make them. So, investors might want to spread their bets, so to speak, by investing in an exchange-traded fund (ETF) focused on humanoid robots. While there will be some losers, the diversity of ETFs means there will likely be some big winners, too.

(Note: The name shown in the chart below is the ETF's former name.)

KraneShares Global Humanoid Robotics and Physical AI Index ETF (NASDAQ: KOID) was the first ETF focused on humanoid robotics and physical AI, rather than on robotics as a whole. It began trading on the Nasdaq exchange on June 4, 2025. To my knowledge, there is only one other such ETF, and its assets under management (AUM) are considerably lower than KOID's.