2027

The future of Robotics &
Physical AI

2026, in numbers

600+ Attendees
60+ Speakers
20+ Sessions
4 Curated tracks

Covered by

The InformationWIREDThe New York TimesThe Wall Street JournalReutersCNBCBusiness InsiderFast CompanyABC NewsInc.

Who took the stage

60+ speakers from the leading
companies in physical AI.

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Deepak Pathak
Deepak Pathak CEO SKILD AI
Russ Tedrake
Russ Tedrake CEO WALDEN ROBOTICS
Andrew Wooten
Andrew Wooten Co-Founder & CPO RHODA AI
Shayegan Omidshafiei
Shayegan Omidshafiei Chief Scientist FIELDAI
Jamie Shotton
Jamie Shotton Chief Scientist WAYVE
Samir Menon
Samir Menon CEO DEXTERITY
Ed Mehr
Ed Mehr CEO MACHINA LABS
James Kuffner
James Kuffner CTO SYMBOTIC
Sankaet Pathak
Sankaet Pathak CEO FOUNDATION
Kanu Gulati
Kanu Gulati Partner KHOSLA VENTURES
Paul Mikesell
Paul Mikesell CEO CARBON ROBOTICS
Kevin Peterson
Kevin Peterson CTO BEDROCK ROBOTICS

Who was in the room

The full stack of physical AI,
under one roof.

NVIDIATeslaMetaOpenAIAWSWaymoCaterpillarKubotaFigureAgility Robotics1XSkild AIFoundationSymboticDexterityToyota Research InstituteWayveTorc RoboticsKodiak AISkydioField AIScale AITeradyneGreyOrangeServe RoboticsBear RoboticsBuilt RoboticsBedrock RoboticsDusty RoboticsCarbon RoboticsMachina LabsKhosla Ventures

The 2026 programme

Four tracks, chosen for
the arguments worth having.

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01

The Physical AI Frontier

  • Robots That Learn by Watching the World
  • World Models: The Bridge From Self-Driving to Every Robot
  • Where Robots Learn Before the Real World
  • The Models Behind Physical AI
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02

Autonomy in the Wild

  • Self-Driving Excavators: Autonomy Comes to the Jobsite
  • Driverless Freight, Built Inside a Global Truckmaker
  • Beyond the Road: Drones, Sidewalks & the Last Mile
  • The Robot Harvest: Autonomy Comes to the Farm
  • + 2 more
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03

Building & Deploying Robots

  • Orchestrating a Thousand Robots
  • Physical AI in the Supply Chain
  • Deploying Robots at Real-World Scale
  • Rebuilding the Factory: Physical AI on the Production Line
  • + 3 more
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04

Where the Money Goes

  • Where the Money Goes: Betting on Physical AI
  • The Humanoid Moment: Real or Overhyped?
  • Startup Showcase

On the floor and on the stage

What a room full of
working robots looks like.

A robot hand in silhouette against a blue screen
A Tesla Optimus humanoid robot standing against a white wall
The glowing blue eyes of a robot in a darkened room
A humanoid robot on stage, arm raised, against the AUTONOMOUS backdrop
A four-legged robot standing on the exhibition floor
The head of a white robot, its two ring-lit camera housings glowing
A speaker on stage beside a walking humanoid robot
Attendees crowded around a small humanoid robot on the exhibition floor
An engineer driving a humanoid robot with a handheld controller

2026, The Midway, San Francisco.

Backed in 2026 by

AntiochMoonlakeEventualFORT RoboticsAnyscaleQuarter20CrusoePoint One NavigationTeslaFaraday FutureHello RobotOusterAlmondToborlife AI

Three ways in for 2027

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Speak

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The next one

See you in
San Francisco,
2027.

Home to the deepest concentration of robotics startups, physical AI companies, and the venture capital funding them.

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  • Speaker announcements

2027

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