Turning Davos into a Robot City this July

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Hi all!

I am helping to organize the Davos Tech Summit July 1st-4th this year: https://davostechsummit.com/

Rather than keeping it as the typical fair or tech conference behind doors, we had the idea of turning Davos into a robot city. For this, we need the help of robotics companies to actually deploy their robots around the city, which we can help set up and coordinate. Some of the companies that have already confirmed they are joining the Robot City concept are:

  • Ascento with their security robot
  • Tethys robotics
  • Deep robotics
  • Loki Robotics
  • Astral

Humanoid robots:

  • Agibot - A2 + X2 - tasks TBD
  • Droidup - task TBD
  • Galbot G1 - doing pick and place at a shop
  • Unitree - Various robots and tasks
  • Booster Robotics - K1
  • Limx Dynamics - Olli
  • Devanthro

There are also ongoing talks with companies that are open to bring autonomous excavators, various inspection robots, a drone show, and setting up a location for people to pilot racing drones. Plus working on bringing autonomous cars and shuttles driving around the city.

We were in Davos during WEF to promote this event and got some media coverage: Davos Tech Summit 2026 | Touching Intelligence

If you are interested in speaking at the event, please reach out! We are building the program during this month.

We are also looking into organizing a ROS Meetup during the event.
Let us know if you’d like to join.

Cheers!

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It’s quite unclear from the call whether the “robot city contributors” (as I understand, those who will actually run robots in the city) are expected to pay a fee for joining the event or if it will be (mostly) for free for them. And what about the speakers? Could you clarify the options?

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Good questions, thanks!

The robot city contributors do not need to pay anything and we help with the setup and logistics to the extent that we can.

Speaker arrangements are discussed on an individual basis but they also do not have to pay for their ticket. Other accommodations might be possible.

We can follow up by email (or for anyone interested): penq@zhaw.ch

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