Two days of robotics development insights from the leading technical engineers on autonomy and physical AI.
Actuate is back. This August, more than 1,000 robotics developers will gather in San Francisco for Actuate 26, our annual conference for the engineers and technical leaders building the next generation of AI for the physical world.
Physical AI is no longer a research horizon. Models that understand the real world, reason, and act in it are shipping today in autonomous vehicles, humanoids, drones, and industrial machines. Actuate is where the engineers actually building these systems come to accelerate their progress.
We created Actuate to give developers and technical leaders a stage for the real work behind building and scaling robots: the engineering challenges, difficult tradeoffs, and hard-won lessons that only come from deploying autonomous systems in the real world. Over the past two years, that mission has clearly resonated, with sold-out conferences since we launched in 2024.
"This is probably the highest value robotics conference in the world right now for people who actually want to build robots." — Chris Paxton, Agility Robotics
This year's conference is our biggest yet. Featured speakers include:
More speakers will be announced over the coming months.
If you want to shape the technical direction of this industry, apply to speak. We're looking for talks on autonomy, AI, infrastructure, controls, simulation, and production systems, with an emphasis on real lessons from real deployments.
Actuate 26 takes place August 18-19 at Fort Mason in San Francisco. Early bird tickets are on sale now, with discounted pricing available until May 31.
We look forward to seeing you there.
