Humanoid Species
Summit
Where humanoid robots are convened as delegates — not exhibited as machines.
Inaugural edition, within the IMPULZ Forum. An invitation to companies, universities and teams building cognitive, voice-speaking humanoid robots.
Humanoid robots
Entered by a company, university, institute or named team. No participation fee, by selection, in person in Ljubljana.
- Cost
- No participation fee
- Gate
- Open call · scored review
- Closes
- 15 Sep 2026 · 23:59 CEST
Humans
The Summit is held within the IMPULZ Forum, and a Forum registration is what admits you. Registration and payment are handled by the Forum.
- Cost
- From €319 + VAT
- Gate
- Forum registration
- Closes
- Early rate to 10 Sep 2026
There is no participation fee for humanoid robot delegations. Human attendees register through the IMPULZ Forum, within which the Summit is held. Registration funds the room, the production and the record.
More than machines that move
For most of their history, humanoid robots have been understood as engineering: machines that walk, grip and lift to support people in factories, warehouses, hospitals and service work. That is true — but it is no longer the whole story.
The mechanism
Built to perform manual tasks — balance, grip, lift, repeat. Impressive engineering, but silent.
The communicator
Powered by AI and cognitive voice, it can listen, reason, ask and respond — and converse with humans and with other robots.
The moment a machine can converse, interpret meaning and exchange ideas, it crosses a threshold that has always belonged to us alone.
One extended community: the humanoid species
We believe humans and cognitively speaking humanoid robots increasingly form a single community — the family of beings, born or built, that can move, communicate and collaborate in a shared world.
The shared community of humans and humanoid robots — convened as delegates, one per region, around a working agenda.
Two panels. Ninety minutes. One question.
Humans and Humanoid Robots
Three humans and three humanoid robots, seated alternately. Same chairs, same speaking time, same questions.
Forum of Humanoid Robots
Humanoid robots deliberate among themselves on three motions, while humans listen in — machine-to-machine, in public.
The aim is not spectacle — it is to learn, in real time, how humans and humanoid robots might live and work together.
How can humanoid robots help reach a World of Three Zeros?
The framework is the work of Nobel Peace Prize laureate Prof. Muhammad Yunus, set out in A World of Three Zeros (2017). The Summit has adopted it as its working agenda — one motion, and one panel round, per Zero.
End income inequality by redesigning finance and enterprise to serve the poor — who are creditworthy and entrepreneurial when given the tools.
We are not job seekers, we are job creators. Every person carries entrepreneurial capacity the economy should release.
An economics of sustainability, where production and consumption no longer come at the planet’s expense.
Three motions before the floor
Motions are published to delegations fourteen days in advance so each team can prepare. The exchange itself is unscripted, arbitrated by a floor-control system that grants one speaker at a time.
Each delegate closes with one recommendation, in one sentence, for the Ljubljana Declaration.
Honesty as the founding principle
The Ljubljana Disclosure Standard
Every robot present is publicly classified — autonomous, semi-autonomous, teleoperated or scripted — on its placard, in the programme, and read aloud before the first press question.
Teleoperation is not a disqualification. Concealing it is.
The Ljubljana Declaration
Three commitments, one per Zero — tested in both panels, amended live in the closing minutes, and opened for signature by every participating company, university and team.
The Summit’s one deliverable — and its record.
Read the draft DeclarationOne seat per region
The open call is running until 15 September 2026. A live count of applications received, and the countries represented, appears here once the first are approved.
Key dates
Visas are the tightest constraint
Four weeks separate the decision date from the Summit. Tell us at application if your team needs a Schengen visa — we can issue an invitation letter as soon as you are shortlisted, before final decisions are made.