The Future Innovation Tech Expo 2026 (FIX 2026) is set to run from 21 to 24 October 2026 at EXCO in Daegu, South Korea, marking the event’s third edition and its largest scale to date. With 588 participating enterprises spanning mobility, robotics, ICT, and startups, FIX 2026 brings together domestic and global players under the theme “AI, Beyond Technology, Into Everyday Life.” Foreign exhibitors account for 28% of participants, signalling the event’s growing international reach.
FIX 2026 Exhibition Highlights Across Mobility, Robotics, and ICT
In the mobility segment, known as DIFA (Daegu International Future Auto and Mobility Expo), global names including Mercedes-Benz, Zeekr, Volocopter, and Neolix join Korean heavyweights such as Hyundai Motor Company and GMTCK. Hyundai presents autonomous driving achievements including “ATRIA AI” and “Pleos,” while autonomous logistics players RideFlux and Mars Auto showcase autonomous driving trailers. China’s Neolix unveils its N3 and N6 robovan models.
Visitors can also experience future transportation directly through the UAM Immersive Zone, which includes a boarding experience with Volocopter’s “Volocity” urban air mobility airframe, VR flight simulations, and drone target-strike missions. Test drives for Mercedes-Benz and BYD electric vehicles are also available.
The robotics segment, ROBEX, sees newly joining anchor companies HD Hyundai Robotics and Doosan Robotics presenting next-generation robotic technologies. HD Hyundai Robotics demonstrates tire handling using its collaborative robot HDC35-18, while Doosan Robotics exhibits five robotic solutions including “Scan and Go,” a CES Best of Innovation Award recipient. Humanoid robotics pioneer A-Robot also participates alongside HRT Robotics and Dogu Robotics.
In ICT (ITCE), Megazone Cloud and OnePredict are joined by 19 AI enterprises from Zhejiang, China, and 30 leading AI companies from ASEAN. KT installs its mobile AI experience facility “KT AI Station” within the exhibition hall, offering hands-on experiences with AI technologies alongside deepfake and fake-news awareness zones.
The startup sector integrates PNP Korea Expo and the Startup Arena under one roof. PNP Korea Expo draws 91 global partners from 12 countries, including France’s Thales, Australia’s Fund WA, and Hong Kong’s Alibaba Cloud. The Startup Arena hosts 30 companies, including CES and FIX Innovation Award honorees such as Mobinn, Aims, Ziorobot, and Fix Robot.
FIX 2026 Innovation Awards Recognise 31 Companies in AI, Mobility, and Robotics
Ahead of the expo opening, Daegu Metropolitan City announced 31 recipients of the FIX 2026 Innovation Awards, selected from 209 applicants by a panel of 26 domestic and international evaluators. Nine companies received the Best Innovation Technology Award, while 22 received the Innovation Award. Over 70% of applicants held prior award-winning track records at major exhibitions including CES. Six of the 31 recipients are Daegu-based companies.
In future mobility, SWM earned the Best Innovation Technology Award for its Physical AI-based Urban Robotaxi, a zone-based door-to-door autonomous transit service operating in Gangnam, Seoul. It currently runs paid commercial operations and is working toward Level 4 fully driverless commercialisation using its next-generation autonomous driving computing platform, AP-700, rated at a whopping 2,000 TOPS. Also recognised in mobility were ONEPREDICT‘s AI-Native Solution, PERSEUS‘s software-defined vehicle hypervisor “Pegasus,” and HJWAVE‘s 3D Waveguide Antenna.
In robotics, AeiROBOT‘s “Alice 5” humanoid robot received the Best Innovation Technology Award. Alice 5 stands 170 cm tall, weighs 50 kg, and combines quasi-direct drive actuators in its upper body with linear actuators in its lower limbs, enabling stable walking while carrying heavy, asymmetrical loads. Its modular end-effector hands support diverse tasks from repetitive industrial operations to precision assembly. Tesollo‘s DG-5F-M Humanoid Multi-Joint Robot Hand also received the award.
In AI/ICT, CENS secured the Best Innovation Technology Award for its AI-Controlled Precision Spray Cooling System, which sprays non-conductive dielectric fluid directly onto high-heat AI server components and dynamically optimises pump flow rates via AI-driven algorithms. The solution marks a world-first commercialisation of automated isolation architecture for anomalous racks, addressing a key vulnerability in conventional tank-based liquid immersion cooling. POTATONET‘s deep web threat intelligence solution “Owl” and WACE‘s VEXPLOR Manufacturing AI Software were also honoured.
Among regional Innovation Award recipients, Farmity stood out with its “FIVIS_SafeX” Spatial AI industrial safety platform, which uses existing CCTV and mobile camera feeds to detect falls, collision risks, fires, and PPE non-compliance in real time across manufacturing, logistics, and construction sites. Farmity was previously the first Daegu-based company to win two CES 2026 Innovation Awards. Remplir and UND Robotics also received Innovation Awards for an LFP prismatic battery module pack for industrial EVs and a magnetic automatic tool changer for robotic arms, respectively.
The award presentation ceremony is scheduled for 22 October at the EXCO East Wing Open Seminar Room. Honours include two Ministerial Commendations each from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, along with three Daegu Mayoral Commendations and two Chairman’s Awards from the Korea Credit Guarantee Fund.
Conference Programme and Business Sessions at FIX 2026
The conference runs from 21 to 23 October and features 60 experts from 17 countries addressing current trends in emerging industries. Keynote speakers include Professor Kyu-Jin Cho of Seoul National University, GMTCK President Brian McMurray, Vector Institute AI scholar Professor Xiaoxiao Li, and PAL Robotics CEO Francesco Ferro. Jupe Tan Sze Wei, Managing Partner for Asia-Pacific at Plug and Play, delivers a keynote for PNP Korea Expo.
On the business side, export consultation meetings are expanded to two days on 22 and 23 October, with pre-matched meetings between 88 buyer companies from 19 countries (invited via KOTRA and private agencies) and exhibitors. A Large Enterprise Procurement Consultation Session brings together 50 major Korean corporations including Samsung SDI, POSCO, Lotte E&C, Hanwha, and SK Hynix to explore cooperation with SMEs.
Free admission is available with pre-registration on the FIX official website by 20 October at 5.00pm. Circular shuttle buses operate between Dongdaegu Station and EXCO. FIX attendees also receive a 30% discount on tickets to the Daegu International Opera Festival and Daegu E-World all-day passes during the event period.
Pokdepinion: A tech expo with humanoid robots, flying taxis, and autonomous trucks sounds incredible, and we at Pokde.Net are excited to see it unfolding before our very own eyes. Expect in-depth coverage of the event throughout.
