ERF: European Robotics Forum
The largest annual gathering of the European robotics community, organized by euRobotics. Brings together 1,000+ participants from industry, academia, and the public sector to discuss robotics research, innovation, and policy. Strong ties to ROS-Industrial and EU-funded open-source robotics projects. Features workshops, keynotes, exhibitions, and B2B matchmaking.
- Organiser: euRobotics
- Founded: 2010
- Frequency: annual
- Usually held in: March
- Duration: 3-4 days
- Typical attendance: 800-1200
- Audience: European robotics community, industry, academia, policymakers
- Topics: European robotics, ROS-Industrial, EU robotics policy, industrial robotics, service robotics, robotics innovation
- Tags: european-robotics, ROS-Industrial, community
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Workshops
- Embodied AI at Scale: Interoperability, Lifecycle Management and Governance (WS41)
- Beyond the Demo: Grounded, Trustworthy and Deployable Physical AI for Robotics (WS39)
- Leveraging Data for Robotics: From Data Spaces and AI Factories to Real-World Deployment (WS36)
- Benchmarking Dexterous Robot Manipulation: Performance Evaluation as a Key Enabler to Transition (WS24)
- Dexterous Objects Manipulation in Dynamic Environment: From Research to Industry (WS22)
- Mobile Robotics and Manipulation: Bridging Research and Industry (WS23)
- Humanoid robots beyond hype: which applications will scale first? (WS25)
- Humanoid Safety, Benchmarking and Validation (WS26)
- The Humanoid Boom: Are We Ready for the Afterlife? (WS28)
- Human - Humanoids Co-existence for Service Industry (WS35)
- Beyond Control: Co-Design for Intelligent Robot Bodies (WS58)
- Robotics & AI for Science: Accelerating Scientific Discovery through Autonomous Systems (WS61)
- Autonomy levels framework for pathway to autonomous mobile machine (WS20)
- Robots in the Wild: Advancing Environmental Monitoring (WS30)
- Robotics for Sustainable Circularity: Overcoming the Technology, Regulation and Business Challenges (WS27)
Editions
- European Robotics Forum 2027, Mar 2 – 4, 2027, Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
- European Robotics Forum 2026, Mar 23 – 26, 2026, Stavanger, Norway
- European Robotics Forum 2025, Mar 25 – 27, 2025, Stuttgart, Germany
- European Robotics Forum 2024, Mar 13 – 15, 2024, Rimini, Italy
- European Robotics Forum 2023, Mar 14 – 16, 2023, Odense, Denmark
- European Robotics Forum 2022, Jun 28 – 30, 2022, Rotterdam, Netherlands
- European Robotics Forum 2021, Apr 13 – 15, 2021, Virtual
- European Robotics Forum 2020, Mar 3 – 5, 2020, Malaga, Spain
- European Robotics Forum 2019, Mar 20 – 22, 2019, Bucharest, Romania
- European Robotics Forum 2018, Mar 13 – 15, 2018, Tampere, Finland
- European Robotics Forum 2017, Mar 22 – 24, 2017, Edinburgh, UK
- European Robotics Forum 2016, Mar 21 – 23, 2016, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- European Robotics Forum 2015, Mar 11 – 13, 2015, Vienna, Austria
- European Robotics Forum 2014, Mar 12 – 14, 2014, Rovereto, Italy
- European Robotics Forum 2013, Mar 19 – 21, 2013, Lyon, France
- European Robotics Forum 2012, Mar 5 – 7, 2012, Odense, Denmark
- European Robotics Forum 2011, Apr 6 – 8, 2011, Vasteras, Sweden
- European Robotics Forum 2010, Mar 10 – 12, 2010, San Sebastian, Spain