Registration is now open for the 2026 Robotics Summit & Expo, the world’s leading technical event for commercial robotics developers. The event will be on May 27 and 28 in Boston at the Thomas M. Menino Convention and Exhibition Center.
The Robotics Summit & Expo will gather the brightest minds in commercial robotics development. Our conference programming will provide engineers the information they need to develop and scale the next generation of commercial robots.
Buy your full conference pass before March 2 to save and gain full access to all keynotes, technical sessions, networking receptions, and special events. Discounts are also available for academia, associations, and corporate groups. Please email events[at]wtwhmedia.com for more details about our discount programs.
MassRobotics, the world’s largest independent robotics hub dedicated to accelerating robotics innovation, commercialization and adoption, is the strategic partner of the Robotics Summit & Expo.
2026 Robotics Summit spotlights industry leaders
The 2026 Robotics Summit & Expo will have more than 50 sessions in tracks on logistics, artificial intelligence, design and development, enabling technologies, and healthcare. The Engineering Theater on the show floor will also feature presentations by industry experts.
There will be 70-plus speakers confirmed from companies such as Agility Robotics, Amazon Robotics, ASTM International, AWS, Brain Corp, Fictiv, GM, Harmonic Drive, maxon, PickNik Robotics, QNX, RealSense, Robotics and AI Institute, Robust AI, Tesla, Toyota Research Institute, Universal Robots, and more.
The full agenda will be posted soon. The event will feature the following keynotes:
What Makes a Robot Worthy?
Speaker: Mikell Taylor, director of robotics strategy, GM
The robotics industry is at an inflection point of opportunity, but continued growth relies on more than just novelty and excitement about advanced technology. Real impact will depend on robots being worthy of trust and adoption into environments with incredibly high bars for safety, uptime, performance, and results.
Taylor will draw on her experience at startups developing technology for customers big and small, as well as experience in leadership roles at companies like General Motors and Amazon, to urge the industry to focus on areas of robotics that can unlock exponential growth while avoiding stagnation in “pilot purgatory.”
Building Reliable Robots at Scale — Safety, Determinism, and Real-Time Performance
Speakers: QNX and industry-leading robotics manufacturers
In this keynote panel, executives will share how they architect performance across control, perception, and networking, and how certified processes can compress time to market for safety-relevant systems.
They will cover practical trade-offs when combining ROS 2 with hard real-time workloads. 2026 Robotics Summit attendees will leave with concrete patterns for building and validating reliable robotic systems.
The Rise of Large Behavior Models in Robotics
Speaker: Russ Tedrake, senior vice president of large behavior models, Toyota Research Institute
Tedrake will present TRI’s latest advances in large behavior models and their role in scaling robot intelligence. The keynote will explore how these models enable more robust, adaptive, and high-performance robotic systems across complex real-world tasks.
Interview with Noland Arbaugh, world’s first Neuralink user
In this keynote interview, editor Steve Crowe will sit down with Noland Arbaugh, the world’s first Neuralink user, for a firsthand discussion of brain–computer interface (BCI) technology. The conversation will explore how the system works, the impact it has had on Noland’s daily life, and what this breakthrough signals for the future of BCI-enabled robotics and human–machine interaction.
Visit the interactive expo floor
The expo hall at the 2026 Robotics Summit will have more than 250 exhibitors displaying the latest enabling technologies, products, and services that can help robotics engineers throughout their development journeys.
Tennibot will return to allow attendees to play tennis on the showfloor with the help of a robotic trainer. The RBR50 Showcase is also back for its third year to highlight winners of the annual RBR50 Robotics Innovation Awards.
In addition, the Robotics Summit will offer numerous networking opportunities, a career fair, a robotics development challenge, and much more.
DeviceTalks to be co-located
The 2026 Robotics Summit will be co-located with DeviceTalks Boston, the premier industry event for medical technology professionals, currently in its ninth year. Both events attract engineering and business professionals from a broad range of healthcare and medical technology backgrounds.
The Robotics Summit & Expo is produced by WTWH Media, parent company of Automated Warehouse and The Robot Report.
Learn about 2026 Robotics Summit sponsorships
For information about sponsorship and exhibition opportunities, download the prospectus. Questions regarding sponsorship opportunities should be directed to Colleen Sepich at csepich[AT]wtwhmedia.com.
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