{"slug": "media-alert-amd-to-showcase-physical-ai-and-robotics-innovation-at-roscon-2026", "title": "Media Alert: AMD to Showcase Physical AI and Robotics Innovation at ROSCon 2026", "summary": "AMD will showcase physical AI and robotics demonstrations at ROSCon 2026, held Sept. 22-24 at the Sheraton Centre Toronto, as a platinum sponsor. AMD Fellow Dr. Giulio Corradi will join the opening keynote at 9 a.m. EDT on Sept. 23 to discuss the evolution of physical AI and what developers need to build systems that perceive, reason, decide and act in real-world environments. Demonstrations include Foundation Robotics' Phantom MKI humanoid running its full-body control stack on an AMD Ryzen AI Embedded processor, SAM3-powered semantic navigation with Nav2 on an AMD-powered mini PC, and the AMD Kria AI Robotics Developer Platform, alongside a hands-on workshop titled \"Train, Simulate, Deploy: Agentic AI from Cloud to Robot\" beginning 8 a.m. EDT on Sept. 22.", "body_md": "At [ROSCon Global 2026](https://roscon.ros.org/2026/), AMD will showcase a broad lineup of innovative technology demonstrations and a hands-on learning experience designed to advance physical AI and autonomous robotics. AMD will highlight high-performance, heterogeneous compute and open software and the roles they play in helping developers train, simulate and deploy intelligent robotic systems from the cloud to the edge. With its partners, AMD will host demonstrations spanning humanoid robotics, semantic navigation, simulation, autonomous manipulation and open robotics development.\n\n**What:** ROSCon 2026 brings together developers, researchers and robotics leaders from across the global robotic operating systems (ROS) community.\n\n**When:** Sept. 22-24\n\n**Where:** Sheraton Centre Toronto\n\n**AMD and Its Role:** AMD is an event platinum sponsor, and AMD Fellow Dr. Giulio Corradi will join the opening keynote at 9 a.m. EDT, Sept. 23, to discuss the evolution of physical AI and robotics and what developers need to create intelligent systems that can perceive, reason, decide and act in real-world environments.\n\nVisit the AMD booth at ROSCon 2026 to see demonstrations in action, and attend the keynote and workshop to hear how open, heterogeneous computing can accelerate physical AI development from cloud to robot. For those unable to attend, ROSCon session recordings will be accessible after the event, courtesy of AMD.\n\n**Event Demo Showcase:**\n\n- **Humanoid robotics:** Demonstration shows Foundation Robotics’ Phantom MKI humanoid robot running its full-body control stack on an AMD Ryzen™ AI Embedded processor. The demo showcases coordination of locomotion and manipulation in real time on a unified system.\n- **Open simulation ecosystem:** Developed with[Robotec.ai](http://Robotec.ai) , this demonstration showcases an open robotics simulation ecosystem running on an AMD-powered mini PC.\n- **Autonomous robotics development:** This hands-on demo explores the benefits of the[AMD Kria™ AI Robotics Developer Platform](https://newsroom.amd.com/news/aai-2026-kria-robotics-dev-platform/) , an open, integrated solution designed to accelerate autonomous robotics development.\n- **SAM3-powered semantic navigation with Nav2:** This demonstration features on-device semantic navigation on an AMD-powered mini PC using the SAM3 text-prompted foundation model. Integrated with Nav2, the solution can recognize arbitrary object classes without additional fine-tuning, weighs and prioritizes surface classes, and detects difficult obstacles across indoor and outdoor environments, enabling more contextual robotic navigation.\n- **On-demand fetch with a mobile manipulator:** This demo pairs the AMD Embedded+ platform with a mobile manipulator to autonomously retrieve and deliver a requested item. The application uses the standard ROS 2 Jazzy stack without proprietary middleware or nonstandard workarounds. The demo provides a live example of a seamless simulation-to-real-world workflow.\n- **Interactive mini bipedal robot from Avnet:** Avnet demonstrates an interactive bipedal robot, built on an open platform and powered by an AMD Ryzen™ Embedded processor. By combining CPU and integrated GPU and NPU capabilities, the platform supports autonomous navigation, environmental perception, voice interaction and gesture-based control.\n\n**Hands-On Workshop:**\n\n- AMD hosts a hands-on workshop titled \"Train, Simulate, Deploy: Agentic AI from Cloud to Robot.” The workshop beginning at 8 a.m. EDT, Sept. 22, examines the practical pathways for training and deploying embodied AI across the robot-cloud continuum. Attendees will explore end-to-end workflows that move from cloud-based training and simulation to efficient deployment on physical robots.\n\n Press inquiries:  [corporate.pressinquiry@amd.com](mailto:corporate.pressinquiry@amd.com)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/media-alert-amd-to-showcase-physical-ai-and-robotics-innovation-at-roscon-2026", "canonical_source": "https://newsroom.amd.com/news/media-alert-amd-roscon-2026/", "published_at": "2026-09-21 00:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-21 14:56:50.111664+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["robotics", "artificial-intelligence", "ai-agents", "ai-products"], "entities": ["AMD", "ROSCon 2026", "Dr. Giulio Corradi", "Foundation Robotics", "Phantom MKI", "Robotec.ai", "AMD Kria AI Robotics Developer Platform", "Avnet"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/media-alert-amd-to-showcase-physical-ai-and-robotics-innovation-at-roscon-2026", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/media-alert-amd-to-showcase-physical-ai-and-robotics-innovation-at-roscon-2026.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/media-alert-amd-to-showcase-physical-ai-and-robotics-innovation-at-roscon-2026.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/media-alert-amd-to-showcase-physical-ai-and-robotics-innovation-at-roscon-2026.jsonld"}}