XPONENTIAL - International Autonomous Vehicles & Uncrewed Systems Trade Fair

Key facts

Attendance 2025

7 500

Exhibitors

540

Floor space

102 000 m²

Admission

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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.

XPONENTIAL - International Autonomous Vehicles & Uncrewed Systems Trade Fair is an annual trade fair in Detroit covering communication systems, data management and flight control systems. The most recent edition on record ran 12–14 May 2026 at Huntington Place; no future date has been announced. The 2025 edition reported 7,500 visitors and 540 exhibitors, a figure published by the organiser and not independently audited. Organised by AUVSI and Messe Dusseldorf North America.

What is exhibited

• automated cars or trucks
• communication systems
• Components and Sensors (cameras
• data management
• defense
• encryption
• flight control systems
• GPS) Solution and Services (consulting
• healthcare
• including both surface (USV) and undersea craft (UUV))
• inspections
• mapping
• security
• surveying)
• testing) Markets (agriculture
• uncrewed aerial systems (UAS)
• uncrewed ground vehicles (UGV) and uncrewed maritime vehicles
• Uncrewed Platforms (uncrewed systems include drones

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.

• Automotive
• Testing & Measurement
• Advanced Materials
• Aerospace & Aviation
• Startups & Innovation
• Rail Transport

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.

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.