ICRA 2026 — the world’s premier conference on robotics and automation — will take place June 1–5 in Vienna (VIECON, Vienna Congress & Convention Center). The event is organized by the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. This year’s theme: “Robots for All.”
NVIDIA is among the key participants. On June 3 at 2:45 PM CET, Yuke Zhu — Director and Distinguished Research Scientist at NVIDIA Research, co-founder of the GEAR lab (Generalist Embodied Agent Research), and Associate Professor at UT-Austin — will deliver a keynote titled “Building Generalist Humanoid Robots.” The talk will cover NVIDIA’s data-centric approach to building general-purpose humanoid robots: training foundation models on real-world, synthetic, and web data, and outlining a roadmap for the next generation of autonomous robots.
Other conference participants include Boston Dynamics, AgiBot, 1X Technologies, NEURA Robotics, Agility Robotics, and dozens of research labs from around the world.
More at: 2026.ieee-icra.org
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