Palladyne AI Corp., a software company, focuses on delivering software that enhances the utility and functionality of third-party stationary and mobile robotic systems in the United States. Its Artificial Intelligence (AI)/ Machine Learning (ML) software platform enables robots to observe, learn, reason, and act in structured and unstructured environments. The company's software platform enables robotic systems to perceive their environment and quickly adapt to changing circumstances by generalizing from their experience using dynamic real-time operations without extensive programming and with minimal robot training. It serves customers from various industries, such as industrial manufacturing, warehousing and logistics, defense, infrastructure maintenance and repair, energy, aerospace and aviation, and others. The company was formerly known as Sarcos Technology and Robotics Corporation and changed its name to Palladyne AI Corp. in March 2024. Palladyne AI Corp. was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.

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President Trump Wastes No Time with Tariff Plan
The difference between the 45th and 47th President of the United States is stark. The 45th President had never governed, knew few people in Washington, and lost the popular vote (but won the electoral college and, thus, the election.) Conversely, the 47th President came into office with four years of government experience, a decade of campaigning, and a deep rolodex of contacts in the nation’s capital. Of course, I am pointing out that although Donald Trump was the President in each instance, the differences are drastic.
Political analysts on each side of the aisle can pontificate about whether Trump is better prepared this time around or whether his tariff tactics are right for the country, but it’s impossible to argue with the speed at which he has executed his plan. In roughly a month, Trump has levied tariffs on US neighbors to the North and South, Colombia, and China (with threats to go after the European Union), for better or fore worse.
Tariff Policy Impact on Stock Market
As market prognosticators, our job is to stay as politically unbiased as possible and remember that politics and successful investing mix like oil and water. Whether you believe Trump’s policy will work in the long-run, in the short-run, tariff news has led to volatility. Though Trump and the US have come to temporary agreements with Mexico, Colombia, and Canada to put a hold on tariffs, a trade war with China appears to be escalating.
Today, China levied retaliatory tariffs on the US from 10% to 15% on liquified natural gas, crude oil, and farm machinery. Last week, the Trump administration hit China with an all-encompassing 10% tax on Chinese imports. Meanwhile, upon hearing the China news today, Trump vowed to strike back in what is shaping up to be a tit-for-tat trade battle among the world’s two largest economies.
Price Action Versus News
Though uncertainty around the trade war is increasing and rhetoric between China and the US is amplified, savvy investors understand the importance of analyzing price action versus news rather than listening to news in a vacuum.
A fantastic metaphor for the current market environment is the correlation between muscle soreness and working out. If you’ve ever missed a month or more of working out and then did an intense leg day, you get extremely sore, to the point where you can’t walk. Conversely, if you have been working out consistently and then hit an intense leg day, you still get a bit sore, but you are largely able to function at full capacity. Think of tariffs as working out and adverse market impact as soreness. Investors would have sold off overnight stock futures to blood red a week or so ago if they had witnessed the newest set of China tariff news. However, with each new headline, the market reacts less, signaling that it has digested the news or at least priced it in.
DeepSeek Fears are Overblown
The other significant market overhang was the news that a Chinese startup was allegedly able to nearly replicate what OpenAI’s wildly popular ChatGPT AI Chatbot could accomplish but at a mere fraction of the cost. However, several Wall Street analysts and Trump administration “Crypto Czar” David Sacks have cast doubts on these claims.
Beyond what the talking heads and analysts say, the price action in the market will always tell the true story because it’s the only indicator that shows supply and demand in real-time. Nvidia (NVDA), the leading AI stock, suffered the worst one-day market cap loss in history on January 27th (the day the DeepSeek news dropped). Nevertheless, suppose you ignore the “clickbait” headlines of the market cap drop. In that case, you will realize that NVDA simply retested its long-term 200-day moving average for the first time in two years, and has since recovered most of the DeepSeek-induced losses.
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Oklo (OKLO), a nuclear fission power plant provider for AI data centers, is another example of how DeepSeek fears were overblown. After plunging from $40 to $29 on the day of the DeepSeek news, OKLO has nearly doubled in just ten sessions!
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With Market Near Highs, Sentiment is Nuetral
US stocks are within 2% of all-time highs. That said, you wouldn’t know it if you looked at various sentiment gauges. For instance, the last American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) survey found that bulls are at their lowest level since November 2023, and the bull/bear spread of -15.3% is unusually negative. Can negative sentiment and the tariff Wall of Worry drive stocks higher?
Fresh Industry Group Participation
Mega cap “Magnificent 7” stocks have dominated the US stock market and have been the tide to lift all ships. However, over the past few months, new industry groups have been cropping up, and stocks within those groups are acting well. Innovative industries like robotics and rockets are two to watch. Palladyne AI (PDYN) and Serve Robotics (SERV) jumped 8% and 20% on Monday. Meanwhile, AST SpaceMobile (ASTS) and RocketLab USA (RKLB) staged convincing breakouts on heavy turnover in the space sector.
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Bottom Line
While President Trump’s tariff strategy has sparked volatility and uncertainty, the market’s resilience suggests investors are adapting. Though the ongoing trade battle with China remains a key concern, the price action indicates that markets may have already priced in the risk. Additionally, DeepSeek’s AI advancements appear to be overblown, as major AI and tech stocks have rebounded. With the stock market near all-time highs and fresh industry groups gaining traction, investors should focus on broader market trends rather than short-term headlines.
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Trump Tariffs: Trade Wars, Volatility, & Market Resilience

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Chicago, IL – February 10, 2025 – Today, Zacks Investment Ideas feature highlights Nvidia NVDA, Serve Robotics SERV, Uber UBER, Palladyne AI PDYN and Tesla TSLA.
Investing in the Future: 3 Disruptive AI Robotics Stocks
AI: From Large Language Models to Robotics
Most Wall Street investors, even casual ones, are probably familiar with artificial intelligence’s impact on the market. Think back to the heat of the 2022 bear market, and you’ll recall that stocks were in a debilitating downtrend, inflation was at 40-year highs, the Fed was hiking rates, and investors were unsure where the growth would come from to fuel the next bull market.
However, tech stocks, the most beaten-down market area, began to furiously rebound off the lows amid the most successful application launch in history – OpenAI and ChatGPT AI.
No company has benefitted more than AI GPU-maker Nvidia, which has produced triple-digit earnings increases in six consecutive quarters and has grown into one of the world’s largest companies.
Though the AI revolution has taken hold, most of Wall Street’s focuses on large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT and Gemini. However, investors should remember that AI’s potential will reach far beyond mere LLMs in the future. Below are three robotics stocks to watch:
Serve Robotics: Robot Food Delivery
In cities like Miami (where I reside), if you walk down the street for more than 15 minutes, you will casually run into small Serve Robotics robots delivering food. Serve “Develops advanced, AI-powered, low-emissions sidewalk delivery robots that endeavor to make delivery sustainable and economical. Spun off from Uber in 2021 as an independent company, Serve has completed tens of thousands of deliveries for enterprise partners such as Uber Eats and 7-Eleven.”
SERV has parlayed its history with Uber into a pact with Shake Shackand Uber Eats to deliver food. What SERV has accomplished is genuinely disruptive. Instead of paying a courier to deliver food, a small four-wheeled box autonomously drives to your apartment and waits outside until you go to retrieve your food. Not only is the technology more cost-effective, it’s also far more efficient.
As the food is on the way from the restaurant, you receive notifications on your Uber app telling you how far away the robot is. When the robot arrives, simply type in a passcode to unlock the box and retrieve your food. The two analysts that track SERV expect earnings to jump 51.35% next quarter and 38.01% for full-year 2025.
Palladyne AI: Enhancing Employee Safety & Productivity
Palladyne AI, formally known as Sarcos Robotics, is a company that builds AI software for robots. PDYN is working on AI that allows robots to perceive their environment, learn from it, reason, and act with little training or data. The technology is focused on various industries, including manufacturing, logistics, and defense.
PDYN does not have much in the way of fundamentals. Instead, the stock is a speculative bet on the future of robotics that could pay handsomely if the company executes well. In addition, the stock has all the makings of a momentum leader. Over the past year, shares have exploded nearly 2,000%. Currently, PDYN is retreating for the second time to the 50-day moving average in a bull flag chart pattern – an attractive reward-to-risk zone (the first time the stock did this it tripled in a few weeks).
Tesla Optimus: Multi-Trillion Dollar Potential
Real-world AI and robotics are all about training, and no other company on Earth has more real-world AI training data than Tesla (and it’s not close). Tesla drivers have been using full-self-driving (FSD) for millions of miles, and the company boasts the largest AI training cluster on planet Earth. Meanwhile, Optimus, Tesla’s humanoid robot, is further along than any competitor’s robots. Optimus is already performing tasks on Tesla’s manufacturing floors and will go into mass production in 2025 and ship in 2026 (the company just posted engineering positions on its website).
Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who often makes grandiose predictions that usually come true (albeit not always on time), believes that Optimus can become the company’s biggest product ever and bring in revenue North of $10 trillion.
Bottom Line
As AI innovations progress at a dizzying speed, the next great investments will be in real-world AI and Robotics. Robots will increase efficiency, save money, and disrupt legacy businesses in the near future.
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Zacks Investment Ideas feature highlights Nvidia, Serve Robotics, Uber, Palladyne and Tesla

The NASDAQ 100 Pre-Market Indicator is down -73.23 to 21,695.08. The total Pre-Market volume is currently 153,614,980 shares traded.
The following are the most active stocks for the pre-market session:
Quantum-Si Incorporated (QSI) is +1.33 at $3.48, with 42,883,775 shares traded. QSI's current last sale is 107.08% of the target price of $3.25.
WiMi Hologram Cloud Inc. (WIMI) is +0.79 at $2.08, with 30,808,690 shares traded.
SES AI Corporation (SES) is +0.98 at $2.40, with 30,613,037 shares traded. SES's current last sale is 240% of the target price of $1.
Solid Power, Inc. (SLDP) is +0.899 at $2.85, with 15,811,682 shares traded. As reported in the last short interest update the days to cover for SLDP is 9.338181; this calculation is based on the average trading volume of the stock.
Rezolve AI Limited (RZLV) is +0.66 at $5.28, with 10,969,366 shares traded. As reported by Zacks, the current mean recommendation for RZLV is in the "strong buy range".
D-Wave Quantum Inc. (QBTS) is +0.58 at $10.48, with 6,897,308 shares traded. As reported by Zacks, the current mean recommendation for QBTS is in the "buy range".
Direxion Daily TSLA Bull 2X Shares (TSLL) is -0.51 at $34.57, with 3,809,794 shares traded. This represents a 599.8% increase from its 52 Week Low.
BigBear.ai, Inc. (BBAI) is +0.13 at $4.58, with 3,047,913 shares traded. As reported by Zacks, the current mean recommendation for BBAI is in the "buy range".
Palladyne AI Corp. (PDYN) is +1.25 at $8.54, with 2,191,772 shares traded.
QuantumScape Corporation (QS) is +0.325 at $6.47, with 2,158,283 shares traded. QS's current last sale is 125.53% of the target price of $5.15.
Surf Air Mobility Inc. (SRFM) is +1.38 at $6.87, with 1,074,656 shares traded. SRFM's current last sale is 171.75% of the target price of $4.
NIO Inc. (NIO) is -0.0198 at $4.67, with 889,983 shares traded. NIO's current last sale is 77.84% of the target price of $6.
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Pre-Market Most Active for Dec 27, 2024 : QSI, WIMI, SES, SLDP, RZLV, QBTS, TSLL, BBAI, PDYN, QS, SRFM, NIO

In trading on Thursday, the iShares Micro-Cap ETF is outperforming other ETFs, up about 1.6% on the day. Components of that ETF showing particular strength include shares of Ses AI, up about 118.2% and shares of Palladyne AI, up about 63.8% on the day.
And underperforming other ETFs today is the Global X Lithium & Battery Tech ETF, down about 0.7% in Thursday afternoon trading. Among components of that ETF with the weakest showing on Thursday were shares of Tesla, lower by about 1.7%, and shares of Lithium Americas, relatively unchanged on the day.
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Thursday's ETF Movers: IWC, LIT

The NASDAQ 100 Pre-Market Indicator is down -77.71 to 21,719.94. The total Pre-Market volume is currently 91,902,679 shares traded.
The following are the most active stocks for the pre-market session:
Zoomcar Holdings, Inc. (ZCAR) is +1.55 at $2.98, with 18,187,256 shares traded.
Direxion Daily TSLA Bull 2X Shares (TSLL) is +0.67 at $37.09, with 8,806,940 shares traded. This represents a 650.81% increase from its 52 Week Low.
BigBear.ai, Inc. (BBAI) is +0.11 at $3.84, with 3,511,911 shares traded. As reported by Zacks, the current mean recommendation for BBAI is in the "buy range".
Tesla, Inc. (TSLA) is +4.57 at $466.85, with 3,442,906 shares traded. TSLA's current last sale is 167.67% of the target price of $278.43.
Rezolve AI Limited (RZLV) is -0.02 at $3.54, with 3,397,830 shares traded. As reported by Zacks, the current mean recommendation for RZLV is in the "strong buy range".
NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA) is -1.28 at $138.94, with 2,685,861 shares traded. Over the last four weeks they have had 3 up revisions for the earnings forecast, for the fiscal quarter ending Jul 2025. The consensus EPS forecast is $0.95. As reported by Zacks, the current mean recommendation for NVDA is in the "buy range".
Palladyne AI Corp. (PDYN) is +1.07 at $6.01, with 2,222,047 shares traded.
D-Wave Quantum Inc. (QBTS) is -0.29 at $7.66, with 1,737,869 shares traded. As reported by Zacks, the current mean recommendation for QBTS is in the "buy range".
Archer Aviation Inc. (ACHR) is +0.27 at $11.07, with 1,281,012 shares traded., following a 52-week high recorded in prior regular session.
GameStop Corporation (GME) is +1.06 at $32.20, with 968,453 shares traded. GME's current last sale is 322% of the target price of $10.
IonQ, Inc. (IONQ) is -0.54 at $44.04, with 688,991 shares traded. IONQ's current last sale is 200.18% of the target price of $22.
Joby Aviation, Inc. (JOBY) is unchanged at $8.26, with 665,030 shares traded. JOBY's current last sale is 97.18% of the target price of $8.5.
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