For Startups
Meet investors actively backing robotics and physical AI.
Find technical talent from Europe's leading research labs and universities.
Spend time with the industrial buyers who may become your next customer.
Bringing together innovators, researchers, investors and industry in robotics and physical AI.
It’s a wrap!
Thank you for joining Autonomy. We will return in 2027…
Why attend?
For Researchers
Meet the companies hiring deep technical talent.
See how research is making its way into products and deployment.
Explore ideas with founders and investors building in the field.
For Investors
Find early stage investment opportunities among entrepreneurial researchers.
Meet top startups building in robotics and physical AI.
Hear directly from industrial buyers about where demand is emerging.
For Industry
Meet startups solving real automation problems.
Gain perspective on where capital is flowing across robotics and physical AI.
Find hires and top talent from researchers innovating in the field.
Where robotics meets the real world
Autonomy is a one-day conference at the intersection of robotics, physical AI, and industry — held in Malmö on the day between The Drop and ECCV 2026, bringing two of Europe’s most important tech communities together.
Robotics & Systems
Perception, manipulation, locomotion, and the full-stack challenges of deploying robots in unstructured environments.
Physical AI
Foundation models for robotics, world models, embodied AI, and the convergence of computer vision with physical systems.
Industry & Investment
Deployment stories, business models, and the investor perspective on where robotics is heading in logistics, manufacturing, and beyond.
Who’s coming?
Speakers
Claes Radojewski
Inception Program Manager, Automotive & Robotics Europe
NVIDIA
Christian Rupprecht
Chief Research Officer
Third Dimension AI / University of Oxford
Jonathan Karl
Analyst
Angel Invest Berlin
Tomaž Štolfa
Co-founder & CEO
Sunrise Robotics
Matthias Dantone
General Partner
Ellipsis Ventures
Serge Belongie
Professor & Director
University of Copenhagen / Pioneer Centre for AI
Peter Kontschieder
Research Director
Meta
Lukas M. Ziegler
Robotics & AI Expert / Venture Partner
Independent
Mala Valroy
Founder & General Partner
Thursday VC
Oscar Beijbom
Principal Engineer
Zoox
Daniel Langkilde
Co-founder & CEO
Kognic
Soo Min Hong
Investment Associate
Node.vc and Pluto House
Brett Bivens
Co-founder & CEO
Production Capital
Chloe Fu
Investment Manager
Sandwater
Alexandre Momeni
Partner
General Catalyst
Marc Pollefeys
Professor & Director Microsoft Spatial AI lab
ETH and Microsoft
Ash Cleary
Principal
LDV Capital
Alona Pammer
CTO & Co-founder
Devanthro
Vasileios Balntas
Leadership Team
Staer
Skander Garroum
Founder
Prototype
Karol Janik
Robotics & Automation Technology Manager
MTC
Chen Feng
Institute Associate Professor
NYU Tandon School of Engineering
William Godfrey
Co-Founder & CEO
Tangible
Mads Paulin
Robotics Leader & Founder
Aitera Robotics
Tua Asplund Hyllienmark
Omniverse lead - Nordics
Nvidia
Rainer Sternfeld
General Partner
NordicNinja
Mehrdad Farimani
Co-Founder & CTO
Merphi Consultants
Hampus Jakobsson
General Partner
Pale blue dot
Krishna Murthy
Head of Product and Business, Robotics
Grab Taxi
Giulio Brugnaro
Founding Partner
Production Capital
Manas Gosavi
Founding Advisor
Production Capital
Aurianne Legris
CVC
Honda Xcelerator Ventures
Maria Wasastjerna
Managing Partner
Kvanted
Francesco Ricciuti
Principal
Visionaries Tomorrow