DUBAI — Next generation advances in Physical AI, spanning industrial humanoid workers, multilingual autonomous assistants, quadruped machines, and wearable robotic exoskeletons, will command center stage next month at GITEX World RobotiX, a major new dedicated showcase launching within the 46th edition of GITEX GLOBAL in Dubai. Organized by inD, GITEX GLOBAL 2026 opens on December 7 with The GITEX Summit at the Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC) before transitioning to a four day exhibition from December 8 to 11 at the Dubai Exhibition Centre (DEC) in Expo City Dubai alongside startup and investor platform Expand North Star, convening more than 6,000 enterprise and startup exhibitors and tens of thousands of government ministers, C suite executives, investors, and technology buyers from 180 countries.
The launch of GITEX World RobotiX arrives amid an unprecedented commercial acceleration in embodied artificial intelligence capable of perceiving, reasoning, and acting across manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, hospitality, and smart infrastructure. According to market intelligence from Counterpoint Research, more than 22,000 humanoid robots were shipped globally during the first half of 2026, representing a 300 percent year on year surge, with full year global deliveries projected to surpass 50,000 units by the end of 2026. Regionally, the exhibition aligns directly with the Dubai Robotics and Automation Program, which targets the deployment of 200,000 robots across key economic sectors over a ten year horizon through 2032.
Headlining the international lineup is Unitree, which commands a 31 percent global market share among humanoid manufacturers, joined by global innovators including UBTECH, whose industrial humanoids operate inside automotive plants and are undergoing evaluation by Airbus, Chery Auto’s embodied AI robotics division AiMOGA, quadruped robotics specialist DEEP Robotics, and United Arab Emirates autonomous mobility pioneer Micropolis Robotics, which supplies autonomous patrol units for Dubai Police. Domestic systems integrators will also play a prominent role: UAE based Mangobot will demonstrate an integrated robotic workforce featuring autonomous general purpose machines, patrol units, multilingual receptionists, live performances, and interactive wearable exoskeletons, while Lootah Robotics will exhibit humanoid, quadruped, cleaning, service, and telepresence platforms sourced from Unitree, AGIBOT, Pudu Robotics, UBTECH, and EngineAI.
Several international hardware pioneers will execute regional and global debuts on the Expo City floor. Chinese embodied intelligence developer Lumos Robotics will make the Middle East debut of MOS 2, a dual arm wheeled AI Worker engineered to handle 50 kilogram payloads across operational shifts exceeding eight hours, building on first generation MOS units that logged over 1,000 continuous failure free hours executing material handling, quality inspection, and screwdriving at Mitsubishi Electric’s Changshu plant, alongside live dynamic agility demonstrations of its 21 degree of freedom NIX S3 humanoid. Concurrently, Raydiculous from the Chengdu Humanoid Robot Innovation Centre will make its regional debut showcasing the bilingual Arabic and English speaking TP01 public service humanoid alongside DINOBOT, billed as the world’s first intelligent bipedal walking bionic dinosaur, while China’s Light Origins will stage the first public unveiling of its interactive bunny shaped household robot.
Powering the underlying compute, simulation, and talent ecosystems for embodied AI, Chinese industrial hardware specialist JWIPC will launch robotic controllers built on NVIDIA’s Thor module delivering up to 2,070 TFLOPS of FP4 computing performance for real time decision making across humanoids and autonomous mobile robots. Physical AI software developer Songying Technology will demonstrate ORCA OS and ORCA Lab for unified simulation, synthetic data generation, training, and deployment, while Taiwanese embedded computing firm Vecow will unveil rugged Edge AI platforms powered by NVIDIA, Intel, AMD, Qualcomm, and NXP alongside introducing its dedicated UAE regional team. Supporting national engineering talent, UAE edtech specialist Besomi will debut six humanoid and mobile robots named the Besomi Rangers alongside Unitree, Seeed Studio, Arduino, and Qualcomm, hosting a live Robotics and AI Lab featuring hands on training on the Arduino VENTUNO platform co developed with Qualcomm.
