Who Attends

The entire physical AI ecosystem.

From the labs building robot foundation models to the factories, warehouses and farms putting robots to work. Builders, buyers and backers, in one room.

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  • Skild AI
  • OpenAI
  • Genesis AI
  • Archetype AI
  • Meta
  • Moonlake AI
  • Antioch
  • Tesla
  • 1X
  • Walden Robotics
  • Reflex Robotics
  • Waymo
  • Torc Robotics
  • Tensor
  • Symbotic
  • Dexterity
  • Pickle Robot
  • OSARO
  • Third Wave Automation
  • Teradyne Robotics
  • Machina Labs
  • Vention
  • Industrial Next
  • Built Robotics
  • Dusty Robotics
  • Agtonomy
  • Burro
  • Skydio
  • Bear Robotics
  • Chef Robotics
  • Aescape
  • Multiply Labs
  • Scale AI
  • TaskUs
  • HumanSignal
  • Crusoe
  • Marvell
  • Formant
  • Sift
  • Ouster
  • Orbbec
  • Zivid
  • Amphenol
  • Point One Navigation
  • Caterpillar
  • Bobcat
  • Sumitomo Corporation
  • Hitachi
  • Khosla Ventures
  • Temasek
  • DCVC
  • Y Combinator
  • Red Glass Ventures
  • Stanford
  • Cornell
  • Penn
  • Harvard
  • Rice
  • University of Minnesota
1,500+
Attendees
1,000+
Companies
150+
Speakers
2
Days

Who's in the room

From the frontier
to deployment.

Every company below sent people to AUTONOMOUS 2026: the labs building robot brains, the robot makers, the enterprises buying robots and the investors backing them. In 2027 the room grows to 1,500+ attendees from 1,000+ companies.

01

Robot foundation models and AI

The labs building the brains for robots.

  • Skild AI
  • Field AI
  • OpenAI
  • Toyota Research Institute
  • Genesis AI
  • Rhoda AI
  • Archetype AI
02

World models and simulation

Where robots train before they touch the real world.

  • NVIDIA
  • Meta
  • Wayve
  • Moonlake AI
  • Niantic Spatial
  • Antioch
03

Humanoids and hands

General-purpose robots and the hands they work with.

  • Figure
  • Tesla
  • Agility Robotics
  • 1X
  • Foundation
  • Walden Robotics
  • Andromeda
  • Reflex Robotics
  • Psyonic
04

Autonomous vehicles and trucking

Driverless cars, trucks and freight.

  • Waymo
  • Kodiak AI
  • Torc Robotics
  • Bot Auto
  • Tensor
  • Glīd
05

Warehouse and logistics

Picking, sorting and moving goods at scale.

  • Symbotic
  • AutoStore
  • Dexterity
  • GreyOrange
  • Pickle Robot
  • Ambi Robotics
  • OSARO
  • Vecna Robotics
  • Third Wave Automation
  • Nimble
06

Manufacturing and industrial

Arms, cells and factories that run themselves.

  • Teradyne Robotics
  • Festo
  • Machina Labs
  • Bright Machines
  • Vention
  • Foundry Robotics
  • Industrial Next
07

Agriculture and construction

Autonomy on farms and jobsites.

  • Bedrock Robotics
  • Built Robotics
  • Carbon Robotics
  • Dusty Robotics
  • Civ Robotics
  • Agtonomy
  • Bonsai Robotics
  • Burro
  • Solinftec
08

Vertical robot makers

Robots built for one job: delivery, drones, kitchens, stores, homes and labs.

  • Skydio
  • Serve Robotics
  • Bear Robotics
  • Simbe
  • Chef Robotics
  • Matic
  • Aescape
  • Shinkei Systems
  • Multiply Labs
  • Glidance
09

Data partners

The data that trains and tests physical AI.

  • Scale AI
  • Centific
  • TaskUs
  • Deccan AI
  • HumanSignal
10

Compute, cloud and robot tooling

The infrastructure and software robots are built on.

  • NVIDIA
  • AWS
  • Crusoe
  • Anyscale
  • Marvell
  • Eventual
  • Formant
  • Rerun
  • Sift
  • Nominal
11

Sensors and components

The eyes, ears and parts inside every robot.

  • Ouster
  • Hesai
  • Orbbec
  • Seyond
  • Zivid
  • Leopard Imaging
  • Amphenol
  • FORT Robotics
  • Point One Navigation
  • MANUS
12

Enterprise and industry

Global companies scouting what to deploy next.

  • Caterpillar
  • Kubota
  • Bobcat
  • Mitsubishi Corporation
  • Sumitomo Corporation
  • Tokyo Electron
  • Hitachi
  • BHP
13

Investors

The funds backing the category.

  • Khosla Ventures
  • ICONIQ
  • Temasek
  • Greenoaks
  • DCVC
  • DFJ Growth
  • Y Combinator
  • Prelude Ventures
  • Red Glass Ventures
  • Plug and Play
14

Universities and research

Where the next generation of the field comes from.

  • Stanford
  • UC Berkeley
  • Cornell
  • Georgia Tech
  • Penn
  • Imperial College London
  • Harvard
  • Brown
  • Rice
  • USC
  • University of Minnesota

The buyers

Where physical AI gets bought.

Robots only matter once they're deployed. AUTONOMOUS brings the operators and automation leaders from manufacturing, logistics, construction, agriculture, retail and beyond, the people deciding which robots go to work next, into the same room as the companies building them.

A panel on deploying robots at real-world scale, on the AUTONOMOUS 2026 main stage

Who you'll meet

Every seat on a robotics team,
and every side of the deal.

Enterprise buyers from
  • Manufacturing
  • Logistics and warehousing
  • Construction
  • Agriculture
  • Retail and e-commerce
  • Automotive
  • Mining and energy
  • Healthcare
  • Defense and aerospace
  • Food and hospitality
Job functions
  • Robotics and hardware engineers
  • Software engineers
  • ML and AI researchers
  • Electrical engineers
  • Mechanical engineers
  • Perception and controls engineers
  • Product leaders
  • Operations and automation leaders
  • Founders and CEOs
  • CTOs and heads of engineering
Organization types
  • Enterprise buyers
  • Robotics startups
  • Robot makers
  • Foundation model labs
  • Investors and VCs
  • Universities and research labs
  • Data and simulation partners
  • Chip and component suppliers
  • Government and public sector
  • Media and analysts
Technologies
  • Robot foundation models
  • World models and simulation
  • Humanoids
  • Autonomous vehicles
  • Mobile robots
  • Industrial arms
  • Drones
  • Perception and sensors
  • Teleoperation and robot data
  • Edge compute
For companies

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For attendees

Be in the room in April.

Registration opens to the waitlist first, along with speaker announcements and early-bird pricing.

2027

Join the waitlist.

April 13-14, 2027 at Pier 27, San Francisco. Registration opens to the
waitlist first, and speakers and pricing are announced here first.