Robot-Con at Sporthallen Zuid

More than 30 robots on the floor of Amsterdam's biggest basketball arena: an open robotics expo, a robot football match, a dance contest and a race, then a serious panel on the cutting edge of AI in robotics. Organised by AI on the Amstel with the City of Amsterdam (Amsterdam Trade & Invest and StartupAmsterdam), sponsored by Prosus and Qwen. Robots come from the TU Delft, VU and UvA robotics groups, Monumental, Nebius, Prosus and the Dutch police, plus start-ups including Antfarm, BTScout, Manus and VNYX. The panel features Sebas Visser (founder and CTO, Monumental) and Pepijn Kooijmans (who leads Hugging Face's open-source robotics work), moderated by Seb Vaessen, who leads European venture investing at Prosus. Doors 16:00, show from about 18:00, until 21:00. Free; more than 1,100 have signed up. Children are welcome but must be registered. Why go: the biggest gathering of Amsterdam's robotics scene this year, with hardware you can actually see. For founders, engineers and investors in embodied AI.