Robot-Con @ Amsterdam's Biggest Basketball Arena

🤖 Get ready for Robo Con @ Amsterdam's biggest basketball arena! We're hosting a massive robotics event! 🤖

🏀🏀🏀 We’ll have top robotics companies and student projects showing off their robots in Amsterdam's largest sports hall. We'll be transforming the city's biggest basketball arena (the stands can hold up to 3,000 people) into a robotics expo. So you can walk around the hall and the court, check out the robots, and network. The doors open at 16:00, although of course you can get there later.

🤖🤖🤖 We already have over 20 robots coming to Robo Con, including the TU Delft, VU, and UvA robotics departments, large companies like Monumental, Nebius, and Prosus, and six robotics startups.

🍿🍿🍿 We'll have some entertainment for this event, including a robot dance contest and a robot race! We also have a t-shirt cannon to fire free t-shirts into the crowd! The show will start around 18:00. But it's not just silly entertainment. We also have an excellent panel for this event discussing the cutting edge of AI in robotics.

🎤🎤🎤 The panel for this event features Sebas Visser, the founder and CTO of Monumental, and Pepijn Kooijmans, who leads Hugging Face's open-source robotics initiative. We'll announce the third and final panelist soon. Seb Vaessen will moderate the panel. Seb leads venture investing in Europe at Prosus, and is investing in robotics companies. After the panel ends, we'll go back to an open expo and networking until they kick us out.

❌❌❌ We're also partnering with the City of Amsterdam for this event, through Amsterdam Trade & Invest and StartupAmsterdam. The City of Amsterdam is committed to promoting deep tech and robotics. One example is the city's recent investment in the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA) robotics lab, which brings together students, researchers and startups. Learn more about this fresh initiative at Robo-Con!

​🅰️ℹ️ 🌊 Robo-Con Amsterdam is organized by AI on the Amstel. The AI on the Amstel meetup is Amsterdam's largest monthly AI event. We get 250-400+ people/month depending on the size of the venue that month. We go to a new location each month. Founded in 2024, we have over 6,500 members and a 4.7/5 rating on Meetup.

🤖🤖🤖 We held our first AI on the Amstel meetup on AI and robotics in February 2026, but the venue ultimately wasn't big enough for the topic! We hit the capacity of the space (pictures of the 400 people who attended), and we could only fit relatively small robot demos. So we're going MUCH bigger for v2 of the robotics meetup!

​📣📣 Finally, a shout-out to our meetup sponsor — Qwen! Qwen is the leading AI model family in China, and they now have a team in Europe. Want to learn more? Reach out to Kas or Daniel from the team based in the Netherlands.

Photography and video notice: like all of our events, photography and video recording will take place at this event. By attending, you acknowledge and consent to being photographed or filmed and to the use of these images and recordings for promotional and outreach purposes.