Event: Autonomy - Bringing Together Innovators, Researchers, Investors and Industry in Robotics and Physical AI

Autonomy is a one-day conference in Malmö on September 14, 2026 at the intersection of robotics, physical AI, and industry. The event is scheduled between ECCV 2026 (September 8–12) and The Drop (September 15–16), creating a concentrated week for robotics and AI stakeholders in the Øresund region. Unlike typical robotics events that separate startups, investors, and researchers, Autonomy places researchers in the same venue as industrial buyers, with investors and startups also present. The format centers on focused roundtables, small-group discussions, expert-led conversations, and keynotes designed to connect people who usually do not meet. The event is organized as a collaboration between Staer and The Drop.

"Autonomy is a one-day conference at the intersection of robotics, physical AI and industry, slotted between European Conference on Computer Vision 2026 (ECCV) (September 8-12) and The Drop (September 15-16). For a week, the Öresund region becomes a center of gravity for one of the decade's most consequential technology fronts."

"Robotics and AI events are not in short supply. Most follow the same template: startups on stage, investors in the audience. Autonomy brings researchers into the room alongside industrial buyers, with investors and startups around them, worlds that rarely meet, in one venue for a day."

"The event is a collaboration between the robotics startup Staer and The Drop. And similar to The Drop, the format is built around focused roundtables, small-group discussions, expert-led conversations, and keynotes which are designed to get the right people into conversations that normally wouldn't happen."

"With the ECCV and The Drop flanking it inside the same week, a critical mass of researchers, founders, industrials, and capital is converging in a way that rarely happens elsewhere in Europe. For Öresund's deeptech scene - which has quietly built strength in hardware, life science and industrial software - Autonomy is, quite frankly, an inevitable event. And a well-suited one."

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