NVIDIA at Automate 2026
June 22–25 | Chicago, Illinois
Physical AI is advancing industrial automation by bringing together robots, vision AI, digital twins, and edge AI systems that can perceive, reason, simulate, and act in real-world environments. Join NVIDIA and our partners at Automate 2026 to see how NVIDIA AI platforms are helping manufacturing and logistics teams improve safety, throughput, and flexibility with simulation, synthetic data generation, humanoid robots, and AI-powered factory operations.
Featured Talks
Tuesday, June 23 at 12:45 p.m. CDT
The Next Frontier of Physical AI: Humanoid Robots at Scale
Humanoid robots are already working, assembling electronics, moving goods, and learning tasks that didn't exist in their training data. The race to build general-purpose robots that can adapt, reason, and act in the real world is no longer theoretical. It's happening right now.
Join a panel of experts at the frontier of humanoid robotics as they tackle the challenges facing customers and integrators today, and explore how an open ecosystem is accelerating what's possible tomorrow.
Monday, June 22 at 11:15 a.m. CDT
Extend Robot Perception With Industrial Safety Agents
Learn how outside-in safety boosts throughput, reduces false stops, and enables closer human-robot collaboration. We’ll explore use cases such as autonomous forklift trailer loading and autonomous mobile robot (AMR) zoning with NVIDIA Metropolis VSS and Cosmos™ Reason.
Monday, June 22 at 12:15 p.m. CDT
The Next Era of Industrial Automation: AI, Robotics, and Flexible Manufacturing
The next era of industrial automation will be shaped by AI-driven systems that are more flexible, scalable, and resilient. In this panel, senior leaders will share their perspectives on how robotics and AI are transforming manufacturing, enabling companies to move beyond fixed automation toward more adaptive production systems.
Tuesday, June 23 at 1:30 p.m. CDT
The Interconnected Factory: How NVIDIA’s Partner Ecosystem Is Solving Manufacturing’s Hardest Vision AI Challenges
Manufacturers are demanding more than isolated AI pilots. They need connected systems that solve real challenges across the entire factory. In this session, we’ll show how a rapidly expanding ecosystem of vision, industrial automation, and software partners is using the NVIDIA stack of AI models—including NVIDIA Metropolis, Cosmos, and Omniverse™—combined with GPU-accelerated infrastructure and tools, to deliver faster ROI, higher accuracy, and self-improving factory systems.
Tuesday, June 22 at 3–5 p.m. CDT
The Automate Startup Challenge
This challenge showcases early-stage robotics and automation companies as they pitch their solutions to a panel of industry experts. Finalists will compete for a cash prize and the prestigious title of Startup Challenge winner. Sponsored by NVIDIA and Microsoft.
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