Advanced Humanoid Forum 2027: Munich, 20–21 January
Disclosure — Humanoid Guide is a media partner of the Advanced Humanoid Forum 2027.
Everyone has seen a humanoid robot do something impressive on video. Almost nobody has seen one do the same thing on the four-hundredth try, on an ordinary Tuesday, next to a person who just wants to get through their shift.
That second thing is what this industry is short of. Not demos — evidence. Repeatable, audited, faintly boring evidence that a humanoid can hold down a job on a factory floor for eight hours a day, safely, and pass a conformity assessment while doing it.
Closing that gap is the entire premise of the Advanced Humanoid Forum 2027, in Munich on 20–21 January: two days built around the questions that decide purchase orders rather than headlines. Here is what is on the programme, who is turning up, and why we are going.
across two stages
with live demos
capped at 30 people
A programme built around purchase orders
The programme is organised around the questions that decide purchase orders rather than headlines:
Who is on the floor
Chinese OEMs share a floor with European industry, research and enterprise software — which is the point:
The two days, hour by hour
The published agenda runs one track at a time, which is unusual and welcome — nobody has to choose between the safety session and the deployment session.
- Sim-to-real transfer
- Safety & CE certification
- Cybersecurity for robotics
- Physical AI in practice
- ROI & performance analysis
Add live demonstrations and manual matchmaking rather than a badge-scanning free-for-all.
If you are deciding whether a humanoid belongs in your operation in the next 24 months, this is a well-aimed two days.
We will be there, and we will be covering itWhy we’re going
Certification is the real bottleneck. A humanoid that cannot pass a conformity assessment is a research project, not a product. An agenda that puts ISO 13482, the machinery directive, CE and TÜV on the main stage is taking the unglamorous constraint seriously.
Both halves of the market in one room. Chinese OEMs and German industrial buyers rarely share a floor. Whatever gets said in the corridors between AGIBOT, Unitree and Volkswagen Group is worth more than most keynote slides.
Deployment data over demo reels. Sessions built around uptime and ROI are the ones that produce numbers we can actually check — and follow up on afterwards.
Humanoid Guide is a media partner of the Advanced Humanoid Forum 2027. Programme details are provisional and current as of July 2026 — session times, speakers and participating companies may change. Source: Advanced Humanoid Forum agenda. Organiser: Ulrich Möller, ULMO-Consulting.
