Attendees
Speakers
Sessions
Curated Tracks
Connect with the enterprise buyers, logistics operators, and manufacturers actively evaluating robotics systems for deployment.
Source vendors across the full stack: from simulation and perception software to sensors, actuators, and compute.
Meet the investors and strategic partners that will shape your next phase of growth.
Go deep on the decisions shaping physical AI: sim-to-real, foundation models, and reinforcement learning at scale.
Hear from the teams solving the hardest problems in robotics, in a room where you can ask questions.
Meet the companies that will be your next employer, collaborator, or customer.
See the full physical AI landscape in a single curated day: from seed-stage demos to growth-stage case studies.
Meet founders outside your current deal flow and the venture and private equity co-investors you want at the table.
Hear directly from enterprise operators on how they evaluate and select the technologies they bet on.
Put your platform in front of the robotics builders integrating autonomy, perception, and simulation tools into their stack.
Understand how OEMs and operators are making software decisions, straight from the people making them.
Build commercial relationships with the startups and enterprises that will be your customers for years.
Put your technology in front of the robotics builders as they evaluate their next supplier relationships.
Demonstrate your products in a purpose-built setting for physical AI, with professional media coverage to amplify what you show.
Build relationships across the full ecosystem: startups, operators, and OEMs all in one venue.
Evaluate the vendors and platforms your company will be deploying in the next 12-36 months.
Learn from peers already running autonomous systems in warehouses, factories, and logistics networks.
Connect directly with founders who want your feedback and your business.
50+ speakers across two stages: founders, engineers, investors, and operators at the frontier of physical AI.
Four content tracks. Two stages. One day of the most substantive programming in physical AI.
Put your brand in front of 500 senior robotics and physical AI decision-makers: founders, engineers, investors, and enterprise operators. Every package can be customized per your needs and will garner you attention and intros from key stakeholders in the ecosystem.
Networking Breakfast & Registration
Opening Keynote & Morning Sessions
Networking Break & Demo Floor
Morning Tracks
Networking Lunch
Afternoon Tracks
Networking Break & 1:1 Meetings
Closing Keynote
Evening Reception
Private Sponsor Dinners
AUTONOMOUS is built for coverage. We invest in professional production so every speaker, sponsor, and breakthrough moment is captured on camera. Credentialed journalists and press are welcome to apply.
AUTONOMOUS takes place on July 16, 2026 in San Francisco. Home to the deepest concentration of robotics startups, physical AI companies, and the venture capital funding them, there is no better place to bring this community together. Venue details coming soon.
AUTONOMOUS is a one-day conference for the robotics and physical AI industry, held in San Francisco on July 16, 2026. It brings together ~500 founders, engineers, investors, and enterprise operators across two stages and four content tracks, designed for the people actually building and funding physical AI.
AUTONOMOUS takes place on Thursday, July 16, 2026 in San Francisco. Doors open at 8:00 AM. The main program runs 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, followed by an evening reception until 7:00 PM.
Robotics founders and executives, engineers and technical leaders, venture investors, enterprise buyers and operators, hardware and component suppliers, and AI software companies building for the robotics stack. We keep attendance selective and focused on senior decision-makers and practitioners.
AUTONOMOUS is built around content and community, not booth space and badge scans. Two curated stages, four focused content tracks, and a full day structured to maximize the conversations that actually matter. Capped at 500 attendees to keep the quality high.
One ticket, one experience. General Admission is $599 early bird (until May 8), $699 advance (until June 8), or $799 standard. All tickets include full-day access to both stages, all four content tracks, networking lunch, and the evening reception.
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