Three-day European conference on humanoid robotics at the Liederhalle in Stuttgart, September 9-11 2026. Convenes 40+ exhibitors and industry leaders around the commercialisation, ethics and supply chain of humanoid robots, with named speakers from Sanctuary AI, Honda Research Institute Europe, Siemens and Fraunhofer IPA.
European Humanoid Robots Summit (also billed as Humanoid Robots Summit Europe, or HRS Europe) is an annual industry conference and exhibition on humanoid robotics organised by ACG Events Global. The 2026 edition runs across three days at the Kultur- und Kongresszentrum Liederhalle in Stuttgart, in a hybrid in-person and online format. It follows a sold-out 2025 edition held in Berlin, and 2026 marks the first time the summit is staged in Stuttgart. The organiser positions the programme around one goal: to "accelerate the transition of humanoid robots from laboratories to mass production and real-world applications." The event sits within the developer and applied AI circuit tracked by Events Index.
The programme runs from research to commercialisation across industrial, medical and service applications:
The three days are structured as a registration and setup afternoon, two full days of keynotes and forums, and a closing day of enterprise visits. The enterprise-visit day gives delegates on-site exposure to humanoid robotics deployments in industrial settings; capacity is typically limited.
Confirmed speakers announced for the 2026 edition, with the topics each is billed to address, include:
The organiser also markets the summit under the banner of companies including Google DeepMind, NVIDIA, BMW Group, Boston Dynamics and Unitree. These names appear in the summit's own promotional framing of the field rather than as individually confirmed 2026 keynote slots, so treat them as billed reference points until the final agenda is published. The full exhibitor and speaker list is maintained at acgrobot.com.
The 2026 exhibition is organised in sponsorship tiers, as listed on the official site:
The exhibition is projected at 40+ exhibitors alongside the conference programme. Attendees weighing adjacent industrial and applied-AI events on the circuit also track the AI Industrial Summit 2026, AI in Production 2026, and Embedded World, all of which cover automation and hardware-facing engineering audiences near the humanoid robotics beat.
Coverage of the 2026 summit is, as of this verification, driven by the organiser's own announcement material rather than independent editorial reporting. That is normal for a specialist vertical event of this scale; the honest picture is that no major independent outlet has published original investigation, and the visible coverage republishes the organiser's press release.
No accredited-journalist count or media request volume is published by the organiser as of this verification, and none has been invented here.
Primarily industry-focused. The summit targets engineers, executives and policy specialists working on humanoid robotics commercialisation rather than academics presenting peer-reviewed papers. Researchers from Fraunhofer IPA and Honda Research Institute Europe do present, but the centre of gravity is industry practitioners, manufacturers and business leaders, in line with the 500+ participating companies the organiser projects.
Broader robotics events such as RoboBusiness or ICRA (International Conference on Robotics and Automation) cover the full spread of robotics and automation. This summit narrows to humanoid robots specifically, their commercial pathway, the European regulatory context and supply chain. That makes it a specialist vertical event rather than a generalist robotics or applied-AI conference, and it sits alongside industrial-AI fixtures like the Industrial AI Summit Munich 2026 on the developer and applied AI circuit.
The 2025 edition was held in Berlin on 17-18 November 2025 and, according to the organiser, sold out with over 500 professional attendees. Stuttgart is a new home for 2026, chosen for its position in the German automotive and industrial-automation belt. Anyone who attended in Berlin should note the change of city, venue and month for 2026.
The final day of the programme is given over to visits to companies deploying humanoid robots in industrial settings. These provide direct exposure to real deployments rather than conference-floor demonstrations. Capacity is typically limited, so registration and availability should be checked at acgrobot.com.
Kultur- und Kongresszentrum Liederhalle is a major concert and congress centre in Stuttgart, at Berliner Platz 1-3, 70174 Stuttgart. It regularly hosts international congresses and exhibitions and offers the multi-hall capacity a hybrid summit with an exhibition floor requires. From Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof the venue is roughly 10 minutes on foot through the city centre, or two U-Bahn stops to Feuersee. From Stuttgart Airport (STR), the S-Bahn S2 or S3 runs to Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof, from where the venue is a short walk, for roughly 30 minutes door to door.
ACG Events Global (operating the acgrobot.com brand, and sometimes written as ACG Robot) is an international conference producer specialising in AI and robotics events, of which the European Humanoid Robots Summit is its European humanoid-robotics fixture. The organiser runs delegate, sponsor and exhibitor registration, coordinates the exhibition floor, and arranges the closing-day enterprise visits. Following the sold-out 2025 Berlin edition, the company moved the 2026 event to Stuttgart while keeping the same hybrid format and commercialisation-first programme focus.
The European Humanoid Robots Summit is a specialist, commercialisation-first conference rather than a research forum, and its 2026 move from a sold-out Berlin debut to Stuttgart's Liederhalle places it in the heart of Germany's automotive and industrial-automation belt. Its value on the calendar is concentration: a single vertical, humanoid robots, treated across policy, supply chain and deployment, with a named speaker roster drawn from Sanctuary AI, Honda, Siemens and Fraunhofer. Coverage remains organiser-led for now, so the roster and figures below should be read as billed projections until the final agenda lands, alongside other fixtures of the developer and applied AI circuit.
Ticket pricing is not published on the official website as of this verification. Registration is managed through inquiry and direct contact via acgrobot.com, with separate delegate, sponsor and exhibitor categories. The event's Eventbrite listing carries the dates, hybrid format and a refund policy (refunds up to 14 days before the event) but does not display a public price. The closing-day enterprise visits may have limited places and are registered separately. Prospective attendees should request a quote directly rather than expect a public rate card.
Address: Berliner Platz 1-3, 70174 Stuttgart. From Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof it is about 10 minutes on foot through the city centre, or two U-Bahn stops to Feuersee. From Stuttgart Airport, take the S-Bahn S2 or S3 to Stuttgart Hauptbahnhof, then walk, for roughly 30 minutes in total.
The summit is billed as hybrid, with online participation alongside the in-person programme, but the exact scope of the online option (which sessions stream, whether networking and matchmaking are included remotely) is not confirmed on the public site. Check acgrobot.com for what the online pass covers before booking.
The organiser projects 40+ exhibitors, 1,000+ industry decision-makers, 500+ participating companies and 30+ speakers for 2026, a step up in billing from the 500+ attendees reported for the sold-out 2025 Berlin edition. These are organiser projections rather than audited figures, so treat them as targets. The move to Stuttgart and the September date are the two concrete changes to plan around. See other September fixtures on Upcoming EMEA events.
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