GITEX’s organiser on 11 November 2026 announced GITEX World RobotiX, a new launch event at GITEX GLOBAL that will bring together robotics and embodied-AI companies from 8 to 11 December at Dubai Exhibition Centre, Expo City Dubai. The announcement is set out in an official GITEX news release.
According to the statement, the 46th edition of GITEX GLOBAL, organised by inD, opens with the GITEX Summit at Dubai World Trade Centre on 7 December, before a four-day expo at Dubai Exhibition Centre alongside Expand North Star, its startup and investor event. The organiser says the dual showcase converges 6,000-plus enterprise and startup exhibitors with tens of thousands of government leaders, C-suite executives, investors and buyers from 180 countries.
GITEX describes the new showcase as a place to show how machines that “perceive, reason and act in the physical world” are transforming manufacturing, logistics, healthcare, hospitality and smart infrastructure. The release cites Counterpoint Research as saying more than 22,000 humanoid robots were shipped globally in the first half of 2026, a 300 percent year-on-year increase, with shipments expected to exceed 50,000 units by year-end. It also says Dubai is advancing its robotics ambitions through its Robotics and Automation Program, targeting the deployment of 200,000 robots over 10 years to 2032. Those figures appear in the GITEX statement and are attributed there; Khaleej AI has not independently verified them.
Named participants include Unitree, UBTECH, Chery Auto’s embodied-AI brand AiMOGA, DEEP Robotics, and the UAE’s Micropolis Robotics, which the release says provides autonomous patrol robots for Dubai Police.
UAE-based Mangobot, a robotics solutions provider, will present a robotic workforce featuring autonomous general-purpose robots, patrol robots, multilingual robot receptionists and live performances, as well as wearable exoskeleton technology. “It’s less ‘come look at robots’ and more ‘come see what working alongside robots actually feels like,’” Mazen El-Kurdi, CTO of Mangobot, said in the release.
Lootah Robotics, a UAE robotics solutions and systems integration company, will showcase humanoid, quadruped, service, cleaning and telepresence robots from manufacturers including Unitree, AGIBOT, Pudu Robotics, UBTECH and EngineAI. “We are not simply supplying individual robots; we are building an integrated robotics ecosystem,” said Hazem Ghazal, the company’s general manager.
Besomi, a UAE technology and robotics education company, will introduce six humanoid and mobile robots known as the Besomi Rangers, with Unitree, Seeed Studio, Arduino and Qualcomm joining on its stand, and a live Robotics & AI Lab. “We want young engineers and innovators to ask, ‘How does this work?’ and then go build the next generation of robotics technologies right here in the UAE,” said Mohammad Hani, CEO of Besomi Robotics & AI.
The release also flags the Middle East debut of Lumos Robotics’ MOS 2, a wheeled “AI Worker” with dual arms capable of handling payloads of up to 50 kg and operating for more than eight hours, and Raydiculous’s TP01 humanoid, which the company says can communicate in English and Arabic.