The team behind Augmented World Expo is launching a second conference under the same roof. Physical AI World (short name PhAI) covers robotics, autonomous systems, world models, digital twins and AI wearables. It will be co-located with AWE USA 2027 at the Long Beach Convention Center in California, from June 14 to June 17, 2027.
The event’s media kit calls it “two events, one venue, one ticket.” According to AR Insider, the two shows will run on the same days in separate sections of the convention center, and attendees will be able to visit both.
What Physical AI World will cover
The official focus list includes industrial robotics, humanoids, autonomous systems, drones, world models, simulators, digital twins, compute, AI wearables and personal AI. AR Insider adds that the program is meant to span the full physical-AI stack: hardware, spatial intelligence, training data, environment reconstruction, teleoperation, developer tools, neoclouds and infrastructure, policy and safety, case studies and research.
On its homepage, the organizer projects more than 6,000 developers, 300 enterprises, 300 exhibitors and 400 speakers. These are targets, not attendance figures, and the event is seven months away.
| Detail | Physical AI World 2027 |
|---|---|
| Dates | June 14–17, 2027 |
| Venue | Long Beach Convention Center, California |
| Format | Co-located with AWE USA 2027; one ticket covers both |
| Topics | Robotics, humanoids, autonomous systems, drones, world models, simulators, digital twins, AI wearables |
| Projected scale | 6,000+ developers, 300+ enterprises, 300+ exhibitors, 400+ speakers |
| Open now | Tickets, talk submissions, exhibitor and sponsor applications, press passes |
Why AWE is pairing XR with robotics
AWE founder Ori Inbar argues that the two fields are solving the same problem. “XR and physical AI are working on the same hard problem: helping technology understand and act in 3D space,” he told AR Insider. “Both are building spatial intelligence, solving it in parallel, often under different names.”
The event’s manifesto frames it the same way: XR builds spatial intelligence for people, and physical AI builds it for machines. It also commits to keeping “humans in the loop,” with people supervising fleets, teaching machines new tasks and making the judgment calls machines should not make alone.
The overlap is already visible in our coverage. Headsets are being used to teach robots, as with NVIDIA Isaac Teleop mapping Quest and Vision Pro hand tracking to robot hands. Spatial AI is drawing large deals, such as AMD’s planned $8.2 billion acquisition of World Labs. Research on world models continues with projects like Helix World, which generates video and stereo sound together. Industrial digital twins are reaching jobsites through efforts like Caterpillar’s work with FieldAI and Omniverse.
From the organizers on X
What it means for XR
For AWE attendees, the practical change is access: the media kit says one ticket covers both shows, so XR developers can also attend the robotics and world-model sessions. AR Insider notes that AI already takes up a growing share of AWE’s stage and expo hall, which is the reason the organizers gave physical AI its own event instead of a program track.
AI wearables are on the topic list, and they are the clearest bridge for consumers. Camera-equipped glasses such as Google’s Intelligent Eyewear already use AI to read the world around the wearer. For the rest of this week’s hardware news, see our XR Week in Review.
Pricing for tickets and the speaker lineup have not been announced in the sources we reviewed. Talk submissions, exhibitor applications and press pass requests are open through phai.world.