Five stocks that offer robust returns from the robotics sector

Professional investor Peter Lingen of the Pictet Robotics fund highlights five promising investments from the sector.

A professional investor tells us where he'd put his money. This week: Peter Lingen of the Pictet Robotics fund highlights some promising investments.

The modern robotics market began in the car sector in the 1960s. Since then it has expanded relentlessly into ever more industries, fuelled by technical innovations such as exponential growth in computer processing power, electronic miniaturisation, increasingly refined sensors and controllers, new materials and more compact batteries. And robotics will remain a growth industry thanks to several secular trends, including cloud computing, autonomous driving, electric vehicles and precision medicine.

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Peter Lingen is the manager of the Pictet Robotics fund