RobotWorld 2026 Opens With Humanoids and Physical AI in Focus

RobotWorld 2026 opened on November 4 at KINTEX in Goyang, South Korea, bringing together 402 companies from 17 countries. The exhibition runs through November 7, with humanoids and AI-driven manufacturing among its central themes, according to opening-day coverage from The Asia Business Daily.

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• RobotWorld runs November 4–7 near Seoul, with 402 exhibitors from 17 countries.
• A new humanoid pavilion brings complete robots together with components and AI software.
• Exhibitor demonstrations include dexterous robot hands, bimanual teleoperation and manufacturing automation.

For humanoid developers, the event offers a view across the supply chain. The new pavilion covers actuators, reducers, sensors and controllers alongside complete machines and software. The event announcement lists Rainbow Robotics’ RBY mobile humanoid and Neuromeka’s EIR and NAMI platforms among the planned exhibits. Neuromeka is also presenting its Physical Skill Foundation technology, which it says supports tasks involving unfamiliar objects and changing environments.

International participants include Booster Robotics and PAXINI. The accompanying International Robot Business Conference runs November 4–5 across 36 sessions, including a humanoid and physical AI track featuring an NVIDIA speaker. Qualcomm and Advantech representatives are scheduled for the manufacturing AI track.

Tesollo’s exhibition program provides a more specific look at manipulation hardware. The company plans to demonstrate 15- and 20-degree-of-freedom versions of its compact DG-5F-S humanoid hand, alongside bin picking and sorting with its three-finger gripper. A separate bimanual demonstration transfers an operator’s hand movements to two DG-5F-M hands for object manipulation. That demonstration uses teleoperation.

The factory theme extends to established automation equipment. DN Solutions is exhibiting its DVF 5000 machining center with collaborative-robot solutions, plus digital-twin and smart-manufacturing technologies.

Together, those exhibits make RobotWorld a useful place to assess how humanoids fit into production systems. The practical questions go beyond whether a robot can complete a demonstration: how reliably it handles variation, how much operator support it needs, and how it connects to the equipment already on a factory floor.

The exhibition occupies Halls 3–5 of KINTEX Exhibition Center 1. More robotics gatherings are listed on Humanoids Daily’s events page.