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When comparing those fledgling humanoid robot startups in China with Tesla, the first reaction of many people is probably: “Hey, who do you think you are to even compare yourself?” To be h
November 3-4, 2026
Chicago, North America
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HRS North America makes its debut in Chicago, a thriving global tech hub. The summit builds on the success of last year’s EHRS Europe in Berlin, which drew 800 professional attendees, 250 participating companies, and 30 leading exhibitors. This hybrid event serves as a pivotal China-U.S. cooperation platform, inheriting the Berlin summit’s professionalism while focusing on the unique dynamics of the North American market and leveraging cross-Pacific collaboration to drive progress in the humanoid robotics sector.
Building on the Berlin summit’s achievements, HRS North America highlights the distinct characteristics of the North American market—including its emphasis on scalable commercialization, regulatory compliance, and integration with industries like advanced manufacturing, healthcare, and logistics—while advancing its core advantage as a China-U.S. cooperation platform. The event brings together top enterprises and professionals from both regions, focusing on themes tailored to North American market needs and cross-Pacific collaboration: cutting-edge tech and embodied AI adapted to local industrial demand, market-aligned product design, cross-regional technical standard coordination, and ecosystem building that bridges Chinese innovation and North American market access to unlock mutual opportunities.
The hybrid online-offline format strengthens the China-U.S. cooperation platform’s value, enabling real-time interaction between Chinese and North American participants to sync region-specific tech trends, market insights, and cooperation opportunities. As a world-class tech hub with abundant North American industrial resources and a gateway to the continent’s market, Chicago provides an ideal setting for this cross-Pacific collaboration. The event facilitates targeted technical exchanges, product displays, and in-depth cooperation in core components, talent training, and industrial applications—leveraging the platform’s advantage to connect Chinese innovation with North American market potential and advance the global humanoid robotics and embodied intelligence industries.
Obtain market intelligence on the latest European market and technology development in humanoid robots technologies
Conducting technical exchanges with hundreds of industry professionals and decision makers
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Collaboratively charge toward sustainable humanoid robots industries
Led By Google Deepmind, NVIDIA, BMW Group, Boston Dynamics, Unitree, and more
Nicolas Heess
Director of Robotics
[Google Deepmind]
With extensive research in AI and robotics, Nicolas Heess specializes in embodied intelligence for the physical world. As a Research Scientist and Team Lead at Google DeepMind, he pioneers learning algorithms for robotic systems. His work advances artificial intelligence applications bridging digital and physical environments through adaptive control and autonomous decision-making.
Fabien Expert
CTO
[Wandercraft]
Fabien Expert is the Chief Technology Officer at Wandercraft, where he leads the development of next-generation self-stabilizing exoskeletons and drives the transition toward fully autonomous humanoid robots. He holds an engineering degree in Control and Electronics and a PhD in bio-inspired robotics. For over eleven years, he has been relentlessly focused on designing the world’s most advanced bipedal robotic platforms capable of replicating the complexity, fluidity, and adaptability of human gait.
Timo Kistner
EMEA Industry Lead – AI for Manufacturing and Industrial
[NVIDIA]
Based in Munich, Timo is NVIDIA’s EMEA Industry Lead for Manufacturing and Industrial, driving its business with firms in sectors like semiconductor, industrial automation and aerospace.
Previously, he led Manufacturing Solutions at Google Cloud (EMEA) and was a Partner at Siemens Management Consulting (Munich/Beijing), focusing on discrete/process manufacturing.
David Hason
Founder & CEO
[Hanson Robots]
David Hason specializes in lifelike social robotics as Founder & CEO of Hanson Robotics. He pioneers groundbreaking humanoid robots for research, artistic expression, and commercial applications, merging advanced AI with expressive human-like features to redefine human-machine interaction.
Aya Durbin
Humanoid Senior Product Manager
[Boston Dynamics]
Aya Durbin is a Humanoid Senior Product Manager at Boston Dynamics, where she addresses complex challenges to transform human-robot interaction. She leads the application strategy for the Atlas robot, focusing on innovative ways humanoid robots can create significant value for people. Her work is centered on pioneering new and exciting roles for robotics in society.
Majid Khadiv
Professor
[TUM]
Majid Khadiv is an Associate Professor leading the Chair of AI Planning in Dynamic Environments at TUM and is a member of MIRMI. His previous roles include research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and postdoctoral work at the NYU/MPI joint lab, Machines in Motion. Since 2012, his research has focused on motion planning, control, and learning for legged robots. He currently serves as an associate editor for prestigious robotics journals like IJRR and T-RO.
Christian Souche
MD, Head of Robotics Innovation
[Accenture]
Christian leads Robotics activities at Accenture Innovation, working at the intersection of human, business and technology trends to imagine and launch the next generation of robots in industrial and non-industrial domains (Retail, CPGs, Bank, Utilities, Smart Cities). Christian specifically fosters innovation, sustainability, inclusion and positive impact for society through robotics and creativity.
Christian has extensive experience managing R&D to incubate emerging services and products to accelerate service activation at scale. Christian has worked in fast-paced, multicultural environments and across different geographies on robotics, commerce, and artificial intelligence projects with clients from various industries.
Jochen Rudat
Chief Growth & Revenue Officer
[Humanoid]
Jochen Rudat leads growth, sales, and customer partnerships at Humanoid. He focuses on commercial results: shaping revenue strategy, running pilots, and building partnerships that get robots into use. He brings more than a decade of experience at Tesla, where he worked directly under Elon Musk and helped scale operations across Europe from the ground up. Since Tesla, Jochen has advised startups across tech and mobility, helping them turn complex ideas into working products and traction. His background is in business and technology management, but his strength is solving problems under pressure, whether that means building go-to-market teams or challenging top-level decisions when needed.
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