IFA Berlin runs from 4–8 September 2026 at Messe Berlin. The robotics story sits in IFA Next, the innovation zone that IFA Management says will host its largest humanoid showcase yet — about 300 exhibitors across start-ups, brands, research groups and national pavilions, with Federal Minister Dorothee Bär as patron of the zone (IFA press release, 27 July 2026).
The headline live slot is Robots on the Runway on 5 September at 1:00 p.m. on the Creator Stage, where organizer-named systems from PrimeBOT, EngineAI, Cozio Robotics, Dobot, DEEP Robotics, AgiBot, Unitree, ZBy – Mind with Heart, Ollobot, Astrall Dynamics and AIMOGA are billed to walk a catwalk demo. Across the show, Team Berlin United from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin brings a RoboCup-style robot-soccer showcase. Treat the runway as product theatre with balance and gait on display — not a datasheet drop.
The same press list flags IFA Next robotics exhibitors including Unitree, MagicLab, Zeroth, UniX AI, Galbot, Pudu Robotics, Hengbot, DEEP Robotics, Astrall Dynamics, AgiBot and Cozio, plus exoskeleton vendors Kenqing and Head Robotic. Among that group, Unitree, EngineAI, DEEP Robotics, AgiBot and Pudu already have clear catalogue pages; Galbot and MagicLab are named in the press without dedicated pages here yet. Hall 25 booth codes on the public site can change before doors open.
Read IFA Next as a consumer-facing humanoid and service-robot week: home, healthcare and workplace demos inside a CE mega-show — not a closed industrial procurement map like World Robot Conference in Beijing, and not the EU policy panels of Humanoid Robots Summit Europe in Stuttgart on 9–11 September. Useful if you want to see how Chinese and global OEMs pitch mobility platforms to European public and trade crowds in one hall; weak if you need verified SKU premieres or B2B matchmaking agendas.
“More humanoids than ever” and the ~300-exhibitor figure are organizer claims. Runway and floor lists overlap imperfectly and secondary coverage sometimes misspells exhibitor names — pin the IFA press release. The wider IFA campus — Audio, Home Appliances and the rest — stays out of scope here unless a source ties a hall to a specific robot.