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.
The TechniaHQ robotics events index gives each event category a clean crawlable route with country, audience, topic and timing context.
Relevant events
- IEEE ICRA 2026: date listed Vienna
- Automate 2026: date listed Chicago
- International Symposium on Robotics 2026 Americas: date listed Chicago
- Manufacturing World Tokyo 2026: date listed Tokyo
- World Robot Conference 2026 Beijing: date listed Beijing
- IEEE CASE 2026: date listed Shenyang
- IEEE/RSJ IROS 2026: date listed Pittsburgh
- Factory Innovation Week September 2026: date listed Chiba
- AI Everything Abu Dhabi 2026: date listed Abu Dhabi
- RoboNext 2026 Osaka: date listed Osaka
- SPS Smart Production Solutions 2026: date listed Nuremberg
- Hannover Messe 2027: date listed Hannover
- 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
Other event sections
- 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.
- 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.