Ambarella (AMBA) may not be a household name in robotics or even the broader semiconductor sector, but it arguably holds one of the most structurally defensible positions in the world of robotics.
Here’s a good way to look at it. Imagine a delivery robot going about its work on a busy street. It has to dodge everyone running on the sidewalk, including kids and dogs. It has to decide when to cross the road and when to wait for an oncoming vehicle, even if the pedestrian green light is on. If the robot were connected to the cloud, it would need to send every new piece of information out, wait for a response, and then decide how to proceed. The delay, even though a fraction of a second, would be enough to collide with a pedestrian or a vehicle. It would not only make its job harder, but also pose a risk that would make it unviable for operation.