GITEX Global Adds World RobotiX for Humanoids, Exoskeletons and Industrial Systems

GITEX Global will add a dedicated robotics exhibition to its 2026 programme, putting humanoid machines, quadruped units, service robots and wearable exoskeletons in one hall at Expo City Dubai.

The new event, GITEX World RobotiX, runs Dec. 8-11, 2026, at the Dubai Exhibition Centre. It sits inside the 46th edition of GITEX Global, which begins with the GITEX Summit on Dec. 7 at the Dubai World Trade Centre before the four-day expo moves to Expo City. The startup-and-investor programme, Expand North Star, runs alongside the Expo City exhibition.

Organisers forecast a footprint of over 6,000 exhibiting companies, with visitors drawn from 180 nations.

World RobotiX is built around machines that perceive, reason and act in physical environments. The programme will cover manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, hospitality and smart infrastructure.

Unitree, which holds 31% of the global humanoid market, leads the participant list. UBTECH, AiMOGA, DEEP Robotics and Micropolis Robotics are among the headline names.

UBTECH's humanoids are already deployed in car factories and are being tested by Airbus. AiMOGA is the embodied AI robotics brand of Chery Auto. DEEP Robotics focuses on quadruped robots. Micropolis Robotics, based in the UAE, supplies autonomous patrol robots to Dubai Police.

For Dubai, the exhibition is as much a trade show as a test of local service capacity. Chinese manufacturers supply much of the hardware; UAE companies such as Micropolis and Lootah Robotics bring those systems into local patrol, cleaning and reception use. Buyers from factories, hospitals and hotels get a single venue to compare systems that are already deployed or close to deployment.

Lumos Robotics, a Chinese embodied intelligence company, will bring the MOS 2 to the Middle East for the first time. The wheeled AI Worker has two arms, can handle payloads up to 50 kg and runs for more than eight hours. Lumos says its first-generation MOS robots logged over 1,000 hours of failure-free operation at Mitsubishi Electric's Changshu factory. The company will also present the NIX S3, which will perform a live dance routine.

Mangobot, another UAE-based exhibitor, will show autonomous general-purpose robots, patrol robots and multilingual robot receptionists, plus live performances. Visitors can try wearable exoskeletons at its stand.

Lootah Robotics will display humanoid, quadruped, service, cleaning and telepresence robots. Its units come from manufacturers including Unitree, AGIBOT, Pudu Robotics, UBTECH and EngineAI.

Raydiculous, from the Chengdu Humanoid Robot Innovation Centre, makes its regional debut with the TP01 humanoid, which communicates in English and Arabic. The group also describes DINOBOT as the world's first intelligent bipedal walking bionic dinosaur.

Light Origins, a China-based company, will give the first public showing of its bunny-shaped robot. JWIPC will launch robotic controllers built on NVIDIA's Thor module. Songying Technology will demonstrate its ORCA OS and ORCA Lab development tools. Vecow will unveil rugged edge AI platforms and introduce its UAE team.

Besomi, an education company, will run a live Robotics & AI Lab using the Arduino VENTUNO platform developed with Qualcomm.