Key facts
- Attendance 2025
- 45 000
- Exhibitors
- 900
- Floor space
- 122 000 m²
- Admission
- —
- Frequency
- Annual
- Editions
- 1 (2026)
Attendance and exhibitor figures for 2025 are the organizer's own and are not independently audited. They may include co-located or joint exhibitions.
Automate is an annual trade fair in Chicago covering additive manufacturing, end-of-arm tooling and frame grabbers. The most recent edition on record ran 22–25 June 2026 at McCormick Place; no future date has been announced. The 2025 edition reported 45,000 visitors and 900 exhibitors, a figure published by the organiser and not independently audited. Organised by Association for Advancing Automation.
What is exhibited
- 5G Technology
- Additive Manufacturing
- Cameras
- Controls
- Conveyors
- End-of-arm Tooling
- Frame Grabbers
- Industrial IoT
- Laser Equipment & Systems
- Metrology Equipment
- Motion Control Systems
- Motors
- Robots
- Safety Products
- Sensors & Feedback Devices
- Software & AI
- Vision Systems
J-messe subject tags
JETRO's own classification, kept verbatim. Fairs carry several; the sector in the sidebar is the single one this site browses by.
Editions on record
Every dated instance of this fair the database holds. A series keeps one identity across renames and moves; each row below is one edition of it.
| Dates | Where | Visitors | Exhibitors |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22–25 Jun 2026 | Chicago · McCormick Place | 45 000 | 900 |
Organizer
Association for Advancing Automation
Contact
- +1-734-994-6088
- Enquiry form
Where this came from
Field-level provenance for the most recent edition: what each fact came from, how far it is trusted, and when it was last checked.
| Field | Source | Confidence | Verified |
|---|---|---|---|
| End date | jmesse archive | medium | 2025-11-26 |
| Start date | jmesse archive | medium | 2025-11-26 |
| Venue | jmesse archive | medium | 2025-11-26 |