8.6 MILLION
PEOPLE.
+ ROBOTS.
A week of conversations, experiments, robots and ideas exploring how humans and robots will work, learn and live together.
THE CITY / 8.6M
Robotics is moving beyond controlled laboratories and into the places where everyday life happens: workplaces, classrooms, public spaces, streets, stores, homes and transportation systems.
Robot Week asks how machines can enter those spaces with care. It centers human–robot coexistence—not as a distant idea, but as a design, engineering and cultural question already arriving in the city.
THE PROGRAM / SIX DAYS / FOUR ENCOUNTERS
Conversations, live interaction, a curated showcase and a two-day build challenge.
01 / CAREERS
An online panel with professionals working across robotics, giving students exposure to different career paths and opportunities in the industry.
02 / INTERACT
THE FLAGSHIP HANDS-ON ROBOT WEEK EVENT.
Students interact with robots and explore the decisions that make machines understandable, useful and engaging in human environments.
03 / DISCOVER → 04 / BUILD
SEE WHAT IS BEING BUILT. MEET WHO IS BUILDING IT.
DESIGN A NEW HUMAN–ROBOT INTERACTION.
03 / DISCOVER
SEE WHAT IS BEING BUILT. MEET WHO IS BUILDING IT.
A small, curated robotics exhibition connecting the people building new machines, interactions and research—not a trade show.
04 / BUILD
DESIGN A NEW HUMAN–ROBOT INTERACTION.
How might we design an interaction that makes a robot more understandable, useful, expressive or engaging to humans?
NYC / FUTURE RESEARCH
+ ROBOTS.
New York compresses millions of people, languages, systems, behaviors and interactions into a shared environment. A robot deployed here must do more than navigate a map. It must understand the conditions around it—and be understandable to the people it encounters.
Robot Week introduces a longer research direction for The Robot Age: layering city open data, human factors, infrastructure, accessibility, mobility and cultural context to study where and how robots can operate successfully.
WHO SHOULD COME
You do not need to be a robotics engineer to participate.
Robot Week is designed for people interested in how robotics may affect technology, design, work, education and everyday life.
PARTICIPATE / STAY INFORMED
Tell us what part of Robot Week interests you. We’ll share program details as they develop.
Robot Week is being built with students, researchers, companies, educators and independent builders across the city. Raise your hand—whether you want to attend, contribute, show work or help make it happen.
Share your interests through our Google Form. This does not reserve a place or confirm registration.
