GlobalEdgeMarkets will attend Automate 2026 as press, alongside NetWeb Software. The show runs June 22–25 at McCormick Place in Chicago, and GEM will cover it from the floor — recording GlobalEdgeTalk on-site and reporting on where AI is delivering value in manufacturing.
What is Automate 2026?
Automate is the largest robotics and automation event in North America, organized by A3, the Association for Advancing Automation. It brings together robotics, machine vision, imaging, motion control, motors, and applied AI in one venue, drawing tens of thousands of engineers, operators, and buyers across four days. The 2026 floor includes Nvidia’s humanoid robot pavilion and exhibits from Siemens, Schneider Electric, Intel, Texas Instruments, and hundreds of other companies that build industrial hardware and the software that runs it.
What is GlobalEdgeMarkets' role at the show?
As press, GlobalEdgeMarkets will cover Automate from the floor rather than the sidelines. The firm’s podcast, GlobalEdgeTalk, will record on-site, with CEO Alex Romanovich and NetWeb’s Ankit Shah interviewing exhibitors, speakers, and operators in short, direct sessions. Those conversations become published content and, for the companies GEM represents, an introduction to the people making automation decisions.
Pairing with NetWeb Software brings two vantage points to the coverage. GlobalEdgeMarkets reads the floor from a market and go-to-market angle: who is buying, where demand is concentrating, which categories are maturing. NetWeb brings the technical and architectural view, including its work on AI systems for industrial environments. Together they can address both why a technology matters commercially and how it gets deployed.
Why is a go-to-market firm covering a robotics show?
What matters in manufacturing has shifted. Robots are a given; the open question is whether AI delivers operational value on the floor — vision systems that catch a defect earlier, motion control that trims cycle time, lines that reconfigure through software instead of a week of downtime. This work happens in plants and warehouses and rarely earns a keynote, yet it is where automation either pays for itself or does not.
It is also where GlobalEdgeMarkets’ clients operate. Many of the machine-builders and deep-tech companies GEM works with are based in Germany, the Nordics, and the Baltics. They engineer strong hardware and need a working route into US demand. Automate concentrates that demand in a single venue for four days, which makes it a practical place to connect European and Nordic capacity with American buyers — the cross-border corridor GEM exists to shorten.
What can a machine-builder check before the show?
Most teams arrive at Automate with strong hardware and a fuzzy US plan. Two quick checks tighten that before the badge scans start. ReadinessIQ scores company and product maturity on the TRL, MRL, and CRL scales deep-tech engineers already track, so the readout lands in their own language. TariffIQ covers the other half of a US push — what duties do to landed cost — with a tariff-engineering assessment across eight dimensions that puts a dollar figure on annual duty exposure and the savings within reach, in about ten minutes. Walk into McCormick Place with those numbers and you work the floor knowing where you stand.
What will GlobalEdgeMarkets cover?
GlobalEdgeMarkets will track several threads at the show: the convergence of AI and robotics, machine vision and imaging, motion control, and last-mile automation across manufacturing and logistics. The goal is coverage that is useful to operators rather than promotional — interviews and analysis that explain what is working, for whom, and at what cost.
How to connect with GEM in Chicago
Companies exhibiting or speaking at Automate 2026, and others attending in Chicago that week, can reach the GEM team at info@globaledgemarkets.com to arrange a floor interview or a meeting. GlobalEdgeMarkets will publish coverage from McCormick Place during and after the event. Teams weighing a US market entry can also start with the ReadinessIQ and TariffIQ checks before the show.
Automate 2026 runs June 22–25 at McCormick Place, Chicago.
