Automate 2026

Automate is North America's largest robotics and automation show, and the 2026 edition is more relevant to humanoids than the generic name suggests: the official program calls out a Humanoid Robot Forum and a Humanoid Robot Pavilion alongside the main automation expo.

For HumanoidRoster, this is a trade-show signal rather than a capability benchmark. The useful coverage will be about which robots are shown in public, whether demos are scripted or inspectable, and how seriously industrial buyers are treating embodied AI.

Watch for practical details: safety framing, end-effector choices, battery/runtime claims, factory-fit narratives, and whether any humanoid vendors move beyond booth theater into customer-ready deployment language.