The FIX 2026 Innovation Awards celebrate 31 companies across AI, mobility, and robotics, including 9 Best Innovation Technology Award recipients and 22 Innovation Award recipients, with six Daegu-based winners among them.

Export consultations expand to two days (October 22–23) featuring 88 buyer companies from 19 countries, plus a Large Enterprise Procurement Session with 50 major Korean corporations to boost SME collaboration, with pre-matched meetings arranged for exhibitors.

The UAM Immersive Zone showcases Volocopter’s Volocity, VR flight simulations, and drone target-strike missions, and offers test drives for Mercedes-Benz and BYD EVs.

In mobility, DIFA participants include Mercedes-Benz, Zeekr, Volocopter, Neolix, Hyundai Motor Company, and GMTCK, with Hyundai promoting ATRIA AI and Pleos, while autonomous logistics players RideFlux and Mars Auto display autonomous driving trailers.

The conference program (October 21–23) brings 60 experts from 17 countries, featuring keynote talks from Seoul National University, GMTCK, Vector Institute, and PAL Robotics, along with Plug and Play’s Asia-Pacific keynote.

The startup segment blends PNP Korea Expo with the Startup Arena, hosting 91 global partners from 12 countries and 30 startup exhibitors, including Mobinn, Aims, Ziorobot, and Fix Robot.

In ICT (ITCE), Megazone Cloud and OnePredict join 19 AI firms from Zhejiang and 30 ASEAN AI companies, with KT operating a mobile AI experience facility that includes deepfake and fake-news awareness zones.

In robotics (ROBEX), anchor players HD Hyundai Robotics and Doosan Robotics unveil next-generation systems, including the HDC35-18 arm and five robotic solutions such as Scan and Go, plus humanoid options from A-Robot, HRT Robotics, and Dogu Robotics.

The awards ceremony is slated for October 22 at EXCO East Wing Open Seminar Room, featuring ministerial and Daegu mayoral commendations and Korea Credit Guarantee Fund award presentations.

FIX 2026 runs October 21–24 at EXCO in Daegu, marking its third and largest edition with 588 participating enterprises across mobility, robotics, ICT, and startups, under the theme “AI, Beyond Technology, Into Everyday Life.”

Foreign exhibitors account for 28% of participants, underscoring the event’s growing international reach.

Award highlights include SWM’s Physical AI-based Urban Robotaxi, AeiROBOT’s Alice 5 humanoid robot, Tesollo’s DG-5F-M Hand, CENS’s AI-Controlled Precision Spray Cooling System, and regional winners such as Farmity’s FIVIS_SafeX platform.