Dear Industry Colleagues, We are very pleased to invite you to contribute to the 2026 IEEE RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots to be held in Santa Clara, California, USA, from December 6 through December 9, 2026.

Humanoids 2026 brings together top researchers from humanoid robotics and related disciplines with leading companies in the field. Interest in the Humanoids conference has grown significantly, in light of rapidly evolving humanoid technologies with many new platforms coming onto the market, bringing us closer to wider real-world deployment.

The conference will be organized as a 4-day event opening on Sunday with public panels, seminars and hackathons, followed with workshops and tutorials on the Monday, followed by 2 days for the main conference with plenaries, keynotes, oral and interactive sessions, and an industry forum. A centrally located exhibition will feature the latest humanoid technology from both industry and academia. We anticipate more than 1500 attendees balanced between robotics and AI researchers and students from the top universities, including UC Berkeley and Stanford, industry researchers from organizations including TRI, DeepMind, Meta, Nvidia and the Robotics and AI Institute, with industry professionals from the many local humanoid robotics companies including 1x, Agility Robotics, Figure, and Optimus, as well as our more global participants.

Our community envisions innovative areas in humanoid robotics that lie at the intersection of general-purpose physical, cognitive, and motor capabilities, while also considering the scientific understanding of interactions with humanoid and anthropomorphic systems.

Join us at the preeminent gathering of humanoid robotics researchers and industry innovators!