On the 21st, robot-related stocks showed broad strength across the board. Buying interest spread regardless of business area—including service robots, industrial robots, collaborative robots, and automation components—improving investment sentiment across the entire theme. Market attention is now focused on whether this strength will continue in today's session.

■ EveryBot and Dynamic Solutions Lead with Price Limit Gains In the previous trading session, EveryBot and Dynamic Solutions led the market by rising to their price limits. After buying volume flooded in quickly during the session, prices held at elevated levels, concentrating short-term demand. Ajin Extek, Naro Robotics, CloBot, and SPG also posted notable gains. While these companies operate in different areas such as robot drive and control systems and automation systems, expectations for the broader robot industry were reflected in their stock prices on this day.

■ Large-Cap and Small-to-Mid-Cap Stocks Rise Together Rainbow Robotics, widely regarded as a leading robot sector stock, also posted strong gains. Robostar, RoboRise, and Robotis also expanded their gains, showing a trend of both large-cap and small-to-mid-cap stocks moving in tandem. Collaborative and industrial robot-related stocks such as Doosan Robotics, Neuromeka, Yuyu Robotics, and T-Robotics also traded higher. Angel Robotics and Curexo gained strength amid growing interest in the medical and rehabilitation robot sectors.

■ Buying Spreads to Component and Automation Stocks Buying interest also extended to robot component and automation technology-related stocks. SBTech, RS Automation, Heisen R&M, Hae Sung Aero Robotics, and P&S Robotics rose, while Smac, Wonik Holdings, and Zeus also joined the upward trend. Hurim Robotics rose with active trading volume, and transactions were also concentrated in Hyundai Movex. Eugene Robotics, Goyang, Mirae Company, and Blue Robotics also showed strength, broadening the range of gains across robot-related stocks.

■ Some Stocks Weaken; Profit-Taking Emerges However, not all stocks demonstrated the same upward momentum. KRM declined slightly, showing weakness even as most related stocks rose. Some stocks surrendered a portion of their intraday gains from their highs, indicating the emergence of short-term profit-taking. Companies grouped together as robot-related stocks have different business structures, encompassing finished robots, reducers, motors, controllers, logistics automation, and AI software.

Some robot stocks are also showing strength in today's pre-market NXT session, drawing attention to the future direction of the trend.

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