Robotics Fair 2026 runs 8–9 August from 9:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at Fiesta Hall in the San Mateo County Event Center. Be The Change Foundation, a Silicon Valley nonprofit chaired by founder Dr. Elizabeth Xu, positions the weekend as a Maker Faire–style AI and robotics experience for families, students and early adopters — not a closed industry badge hall.
Organizers say the roughly 55,000-square-foot hall will host more than 30 exhibitors and expect more than 5,000 attendees. The headline student draw is the Lobster Cup International FTC invitational — PR Newswire cites about 40 teams while the event site advertises 60+, so treat the range as organizer messaging until the roster locks. Parallel tracks include AI and robotics talks from speakers with backgrounds at NVIDIA, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, Stanford and others, plus six hands-on workshops (about 50 students per session) included with admission for parents and children who bring a laptop.
The 31 July press release says Tesla will bring its Cybercab and robots to the hall with on-site test-drive experiences, alongside humanoid robots, robot dogs, automation demos and other consumer-facing exhibits. That maps cleanly to Tesla and Optimus for the humanoid thread; Cybercab is a vehicle demo, not a robot SKU. Unnamed quadruped and humanoid unnamed floor units stay general category colour — do not assume Unitree or Boston Dynamics booths without an exhibitor list.
Read this weekend as public-facing product theatre and STEM pipeline, not a procurement map like World Robot Conference in Beijing later in August. Useful if you want to see how OEMs pitch mobility and humanoids to non-specialist families — weak if you need datasheets, booth-confirmed OEM maps or industrial ROI sessions. Tickets are sold via Luma; Xu’s quoted two-day family pass (up to five people) is $150. Confirm current tiers on Luma before travel — the marketing site’s “free general admission” line conflicts with the paid Family Pack and Individual options on the registration page.