On September 14, 2026 something the robotics industry has long been missing lands in Malmö: a robotics event done differently. 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.
“I’m very excited about this”
said Jan-Erik Solem, co-founder Staer and initiator
Why Malmö, why 2026
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.
Read more about the event here: autonomyconf.com
