Robotics Events 2026: Conferences, Expos and Competitions
Track robotics conferences, exhibitions, humanoid events, industrial automation shows, robot competitions and startup demo days.
Robotics events are useful when they reveal hardware, demos, deployment partners, safety constraints, research papers or manufacturing signals that are not visible from social clips.
Event guides
- Robotics Conferences — Research conferences such as ICRA, IROS, RSS, Humanoids, ROSCon, and medical robotics forums are best for papers, workshops, PhD networking, and technical roadmaps.
- Robotics Exhibitions and Trade Shows — Exhibitions are best for seeing robot arms, cobots, sensors, grippers, drives, warehouse robots, drones, and suppliers that can actually be contacted.
- Humanoid Robot Events — Humanoid robot events should be evaluated by locomotion quality, hand capability, autonomy disclosure, battery runtime, safety setup, teleoperation use, and field deployment evidence.
- Industrial Automation Events — Industrial automation events are where robotics becomes practical: robot cells, sensors, drives, motion control, safety systems, machine vision, PLCs, grippers, and system integrators.
- Robotics Competitions — Robot competitions reveal robustness because teams must solve perception, localization, control, manipulation, autonomy, and recovery under public scoring pressure.
- Robotics Startup Demo Days — Startup demo days and commercial robotics events are useful for fundraising, pilot customers, hiring, partnerships, media coverage, and supplier discovery.
Robotics events list
- IEEE ICRA 2026: date listed Vienna
- Robotics Summit & Expo 2026: date listed Boston
- Automate 2026: date listed Chicago
- International Symposium on Robotics 2026 Americas: date listed Chicago
- Hamlyn Symposium on Medical Robotics 2026: date listed London
- RoboCup 2026 Incheon: date listed Incheon
- Manufacturing World Tokyo 2026: date listed Tokyo
- Robotics: Science and Systems 2026: date listed Sydney
- World Robot Conference 2026 Beijing: date listed Beijing
- IEEE CASE 2026: date listed Shenyang
- IEEE RO-MAN 2026: date listed Kitakyushu
- Commercial UAV Expo 2026: date listed Las Vegas
- ROSCon Global 2026: date listed Toronto
- IEEE/RSJ IROS 2026: date listed Pittsburgh
- Factory Innovation Week September 2026: date listed Chiba
- RoboBusiness 2026: date listed Santa Clara
- AI Everything Abu Dhabi 2026: date listed Abu Dhabi
- IEEE SSRR 2026: date listed Incheon
- RoboNext 2026 Osaka: date listed Osaka
- GITEX Global 2026 Physical AI Track: date listed Dubai
- SPS Smart Production Solutions 2026: date listed Nuremberg
- CES 2027 Robotics and AI Track: date listed Las Vegas
- LogiMAT Stuttgart 2027: date listed Stuttgart
- Hannover Messe 2027: date listed Hannover
- IEEE Humanoids 2026: date listed Santa Clara
- Humanoid Robots Summit Europe 2026: date listed Stuttgart
- Industrial Transformation ASIA-PACIFIC 2026: date listed Singapore
- ROBOTWORLD 2026: date listed Goyang
- Japan Robot Week: date listed Japan
- iREX Tokyo International Robot Exhibition: date listed Tokyo
- China International Robot Show: date listed Shanghai
- automatica Munich 2027: date listed Munich
- European Robotics Forum 2027: date listed Birmingham