Events Calendar
Upcoming robotics conferences, trade shows, summits, and workshops worldwide.
Upcoming
31MACHINA Summit 2026
Europe's leading Physical AI summit dedicated to humanoid robotics, industrial autonomy, and next-generation human-machine interfaces. Held at Station F in Paris as part of RAISE Week 2026. Features keynotes from Google DeepMind, 1X, Agility Robotics, expert talks, live robot demos, and curated one-to-one investor meetings.
WAIC 2026 — World Artificial Intelligence Conference
China's premier AI conference co-hosted by Shanghai Municipal Government and multiple national ministries. Features strong robotics and embodied AI content across three venue areas (Expo, Zhangjiang, Xijiao) with 100,000+ attendees.
BioRob 2026 — IEEE RAS/EMBS Conference on Biomedical Robotics
The 11th IEEE RAS/EMBS International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics, held in Edmonton. Covers the intersection of robotics, mechatronics, medicine, and biology with peer-reviewed research presentations.
IMTS 2026 — International Manufacturing Technology Show
The largest trade show in the Western Hemisphere with 100,000+ attendees. New 'Automation Sector accelerated by SPS' specifically focuses on robotics, industrial automation, and smart manufacturing.
IROS 2026 — IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
A top-tier IEEE/RSJ robotics conference alongside ICRA, covering intelligent robot systems, perception, planning, learning, and human-robot interaction. Held in the robotics hub of Pittsburgh.
CIROS 2026 — China International Robot Show
China's premier national robot exhibition, held as the Robotics Show sub-exhibition within CIIF (China International Industry Fair). Covers the full robot product chain — industrial robots, service robots, cobots, core components, and system integration. A key platform for the Chinese robotics ecosystem.
CIIF 2026 — China International Industry Fair
One of the world's top three robot exhibitions alongside iREX (Japan) and Automatica (Germany), co-organized by China's Ministry of Commerce and Shanghai Municipal Government. 300,000 sqm, 3,000 enterprises, 200,000+ visitors. The CIROS robot show (evt-009) is a sub-exhibition within CIIF.
CICAI 2026 — CAAI International Conference on Artificial Intelligence
CAAI's flagship international AI conference, held at Zhejiang University Haining International Campus. The 2026 edition draws 5,000+ participants from 50+ countries with strong tracks on embodied AI, robot learning, and physical intelligence — a growing priority for China's national AI strategy.
PACK EXPO International 2026
The largest edition ever of North America's premier packaging machinery and technology trade show, organized by PMMI. 2,600+ exhibitors, 48,000+ attendees, and 1.3M sq ft of show floor. Heavy coverage of packaging robotics, palletizing automation, and food & beverage processing systems.
FIRA USA 2026 — Forum for AI and Robotics in Agriculture
The 5th annual North American agricultural robotics trade show featuring 1,800+ participants, 60+ exhibitors, and 30 live robot field demonstrations. Covers specialty crop automation, autonomous tractors, and precision agriculture solutions from companies including John Deere and New Holland.
DARPA Triage Challenge — Final Event 2026
The final and most complex event in DARPA's $7M Triage Challenge, requiring robotic systems to perform physiological triage of simulated mass-casualty patients in realistic disaster environments. Teams must demonstrate autonomous vital sign monitoring, injury assessment, and prioritization without human intervention.
A3 International Robot Safety Conference 2026
The premier event for robot safety standards and compliance, covering ISO 10218, ISO 25785-1, mobile robot risk assessment, AI safety, and cybersecurity. Organized by A3 (Association for Advancing Automation).
CoRL 2026 — Conference on Robot Learning
The premier venue for research at the intersection of robotics and machine learning, covering robot manipulation, locomotion, perception, and sim-to-real transfer. Rapidly growing in influence alongside the Physical AI wave. Workshops on November 9; main conference November 10–12.
CoRL 2026 Workshops
Full-day workshop program at the Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL 2026), featuring 15+ workshops on dexterous manipulation, open-source robot hardware, safe robot learning, robotics world modeling, human-to-robot imitation (H2R), and embodied AI.
ISRR 2026 — International Symposium of Robotics Research
The IFRR flagship biennial symposium on fundamental robotics research — single-track, highly selective, and forward-looking. Held at Casa del Rio Melaka Hotel. Brings together leading robotics researchers worldwide for in-depth presentations on perception, manipulation, planning, and the future of robot autonomy.
CHTF 2026 — China Hi-Tech Fair
China's premier high-tech fair (28th edition) with a specialized Robotics Industry Chain section. Held at Shenzhen World Exhibition and Convention Center (Bao'an). Expected 5,000+ exhibiting companies and 400,000+ visitors. Co-organized by multiple national ministries.
Humanoids Summit Silicon Valley 2026
The 3rd edition of the commercial humanoid robotics summit, founded by ALM Ventures. The 2025 edition drew 2,000 participants from 40 countries, 75 speakers, and 60 exhibitors. Focused on commercial deployment, go-to-market, and live robot demonstrations rather than academic research.
NeurIPS 2026 — Neural Information Processing Systems
The world's largest and most influential AI research conference (40th edition), held at the International Convention Centre Sydney. Features robotics, embodied AI, and robot learning workshops. Satellite venues in Atlanta, USA and Paris, France run concurrently. 15,000+ attendees.
Humanoids 2026 — IEEE-RAS 25th International Conference on Humanoid Robots
The 25th edition of the premier IEEE-RAS conference dedicated to humanoid robot research, held in Silicon Valley. Covers bipedal locomotion, whole-body control, dexterous manipulation, and human-robot interaction.
CES 2027
The world's most influential consumer electronics and technology trade show, organized by the Consumer Technology Association. The 2027 edition continues major tracks on humanoid robots, embodied AI, and autonomous mobility following the breakout robotics presence at CES 2026.
ICRA 2027 — IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
The IEEE flagship robotics conference, returning to Asia for the first time since 2024, hosted at COEX Convention & Exhibition Center in Seoul. Expected 10,000+ attendees covering manipulation, locomotion, perception, learning, and human-robot interaction.
Robotics Summit & Expo 2027
The annual robotics developer conference at John B. Hynes Convention Center, bringing together 6,000+ engineers and developers from aerospace, defense, healthcare, logistics, and manufacturing. Boston's signature robotics industry event.
IROS 2027 — IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
The IEEE/RSJ IROS 2027 conference returns to Europe, held at Fortezza da Basso in Florence, Italy. Covers intelligent robot systems, perception, planning, learning, and human-robot interaction. Hosted by AIM Group International in collaboration with the University of Florence and the Italian Robotics Community.
Past (24)
HackA-Bot 2026 — Humanoid Robotics Hackathon
A 48-hour hackathon dedicated to humanoid robotics challenges, held at the Siemens Campus in Erlangen. Organized by BEST Erlangen e.V., bringing together students and researchers to prototype and test humanoid robot solutions.
CHREC 2026 — China Humanoid Robot Ecosystem Conference
The 3rd China Humanoid Robot Ecosystem Conference featuring 10+ forums, 100+ exhibiting companies, and competitions including humanoid boxing. A key platform for China's rapidly growing humanoid robotics industry with ~10,000 attendees.
Beijing E-Town Humanoid Half-Marathon 2026
Annual humanoid robot endurance competition covering the full half-marathon distance (21.1 km). In 2026, Honor's humanoid 'Flash' won in 50 minutes 26 seconds — surpassing the human world record of 57:20. Over 300 robots from 100+ international teams competed (including entries from Germany, France, and Brazil). A major benchmark event for Chinese humanoid locomotion; the winning time improved from 2:40:42 in 2025 to 50:26 in 2026.
EmTech AI 2026 — MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review's flagship AI conference themed 'The Great Integration,' featuring dedicated robotics sessions on humanoid deployment and embodied intelligence. Hybrid format with in-person and virtual attendance.
FAIR plus 2026 — Fair of AI and Robotics
Shenzhen's dedicated AI and robotics industry expo co-organized by Shenzhen Robotics Association and Messe Stuttgart. Covers the full robot industry chain with academic conferences, standards forums, and business matchmaking.
HRTE 2026 — Hangzhou International Humanoid Robot Exhibition
The 2nd edition of Hangzhou's dedicated humanoid robot exhibition, serving Zhejiang Province's growing robotics cluster. Covers the full humanoid robot component chain: servo actuators, sensors, controllers, vision systems, and batteries, alongside complete humanoid robot systems.
Canadian AI / CRV 2026 — Conference on AI, Robots and Vision
Canada's primary academic venue combining the 39th Canadian Conference on AI and the 23rd Conference on Robots and Vision (CRV). Covers robotics perception, autonomous systems, and AI applications at Simon Fraser University.
ICRA 2026 — IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
The flagship IEEE robotics conference under the theme 'Robots for All,' featuring plenary sessions, contributed papers, workshops, an industry expo, and robot competitions. The top venue for academic and applied robotics research.
AgiBot World Challenge 2026 @ ICRA
The largest robotics competition prize pool in history at $530,000, co-organized by AgiBot and IEEE ICRA 2026. Three tracks: World Model development, VLM+VLA policy training, and Whole-Body Control. Online qualification rounds run March through May; finals held during ICRA in Vienna.
CVPR 2026 Embodied AI Workshop
Annual Embodied AI Workshop co-located with CVPR 2026, covering vision-language-action models, EAI challenges, sim-to-real transfer, and robot learning. Hybrid format with invited talks, poster sessions, and panels on interactive physical AI.
SCIIF 2026 — South China International Industry Fair
The largest industrial expo in Southern China, co-organized with Hannover Messe. 100,000 sqm, 800+ exhibitors covering industrial robotics, machine vision, smart factory solutions, and automation. A key platform for China's Greater Bay Area manufacturing hub.
LeRobot Worldwide Hackathon 2026
Hugging Face's global open-source robotics hackathon using the LeRobot toolbox for imitation and reinforcement learning on low-cost robot arms. Over 3,000 participants in the 2025 inaugural edition.
WAFR 2026 — Workshop on Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics
The 17th edition of the biennial WAFR symposium on the mathematical and algorithmic foundations of robotics, running since 1994. Covers motion planning, sampling-based algorithms, computational geometry for robots, and formal verification of robotic systems.
ISR Americas 2026 — International Symposium on Robotics
The 59th edition of the IFR International Symposium on Robotics, co-located with Automate 2026. Bridges academic research and industrial application with keynotes from leading roboticists and automation executives.