MACHINA Summit Moves to the Palais des Congrès for 2027, Names Wandercraft, Agility and Skild AI Speakers

MACHINA Summit, the Paris physical AI conference that held its first edition at Station F in July, will return on 7–8 July 2027 at the Palais des Congrès de Paris. Chain of Events, which organises the summit, announced the second edition on Tuesday. The event grows from one day to two, with 3,500 attendees and 200 speakers expected and ten times the floor space of the first edition.

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• MACHINA 2027 runs 7–8 July at the Palais des Congrès de Paris, after a single day at Station F in 2026.
• The organiser expects 3,500 attendees and 200 speakers, up from more than 1,500 attendees and 97 speakers at the first edition.
• The first confirmed speakers include Wandercraft CEO Matthieu Masselin, Agility Robotics co-founder Jonathan Hurst and Skild AI co-founder Abhinav Gupta.
• The summit closes with an invitation-only gala for 500 guests at the Château de Versailles on the evening of 8 July.

First speakers for 2027

Five speakers have been confirmed so far: Matthieu Masselin, CEO of French exoskeleton and humanoid maker Wandercraft; Jonathan Hurst, co-founder of Agility Robotics; Abhinav Gupta, co-founder and president of Skild AI; Evan Beard, CEO of Standard Bots; and Albert Pescheck, CEO of Bosch Digital Twin Industries. The organiser says more speakers, partners and programme details will be announced in the coming weeks.

In September, Wandercraft signed 12 enterprise customers for its Calvin-40 industrial humanoid, and Skild AI reported crossing $100 million in annual recurring revenue. Hurst detailed the architecture of Digit 5 with Agility CEO Peggy Johnson the same month.

The first edition

The 2026 summit took place on 7 July at Station F across two stages. The organiser says it drew more than 1,500 attendees from 890 companies and 97 speakers, among them NVIDIA director of robotics Jim Fan, 1X CEO Bernt Børnich, Boston Dynamics founder Marc Raibert of the RAI Institute, Carolina Parada of Google DeepMind and Neura Robotics CEO David Reger. Boston Dynamics, LimX Dynamics, Schaeffler and AGIBOT ran live robot demos on the floor. Paris start-up UMA used the event to publish the design of its Northstar humanoid alongside a working prototype.

MACHINA Week

The 2027 summit runs alongside RAISE Summit, the larger AI conference MACHINA grew out of, which says it drew more than 9,000 attendees in 2026. Around the two conference days, the organiser is scheduling what it calls MACHINA Week:

• an invitation-only gala for 500 guests at the Château de Versailles on the evening of 8 July
• a CxO Summit, also by invitation, with one-to-one meetings between companies buying robots, the companies building them and investors
• MACHINA Factory, where engineering teams build physical AI products in front of investors and potential customers
• private dinners and salons across Paris

David Amar, a co-founder of MACHINA, said the summit is meant to give the industry a meeting place in Europe: "Physical AI is the next frontier, and the people building it should not have to fly to San Francisco or Shenzhen to meet each other."

Humanoids Daily is a community partner of MACHINA 2027.