Thank You to Our 2025 Sponsors + Partners
May 11 – 14, 2026 | Education May 12 – 14, 2026 | Exhibits Detroit, MI | Huntington Place
Sometimes you don’t know what you need until it’s right in front of you. The XPO Hall is your chance to see the latest autonomous innovations up close. Attendees explored hundreds of exhibits across every sector, found solutions to take their business to the next level, and built relationships with future customers, partners, and suppliers.
The XPO Hall included cutting-edge technologies for every aspect of uncrewed operations. Whatever attendees were working on, they were able to find a component, sensor, platform, or service to make it even better.
XPONENTIAL is an event for the entire ecosystem. If attendees were developing, building, or using autonomous technology in any of these markets, they were able to find partners to accelerate their work:
Go beyond the exhibits. The XPO Hall included opportunities for collaboration, industry education, networking, future workforce development in STEM, and more.
The AUVSI booth was your hub for learning about the latest industry resources and meeting fellow members.
Attendees stopped by for interactive demos featuring AVILLE, the Uncrewed Systems & Robotics Database (USRD), the Federal Defense Spending Report for Uncrewed Systems, and the Trusted Operator Program.
And they learned more about our advocacy initiatives that impact the future of their business:
Located in the XPO Hall, education theaters hosted sessions exploring autonomy’s impact on major industries, from logistics and urban mobility, to mapping and surveying, to defense and security.
Defense-specific programming at XPONENTIAL highlighted the ongoing work of AUVSI—and our community—to use uncrewed and autonomous platforms to support our warfighters and their critical missions. At AUVSI Defense, located just outside the Defense Technology Zone, military, government, and industry leaders came together for focused conversations and problem-solving.
Blue UAS rapidly vets and scales commercial uncrewed aerial system (UAS) technology for the Department of Defense (DoD). A routinely updated list of DoD-approved drones provides options for government users’ evolving needs. These drones are section 848 FY20 NDAA compliant, validated as cyber-secure and safe to fly, and available for government purchase and operation.
Green UAS verifies that commercial drones meet the highest levels of cybersecurity and NDAA supply chain requirements through a security controls assessment and vulnerability and penetration test. The Green UAS cleared list of drones meets the same updated levels of security requirements as the DIU's Blue UAS 2.0 program.
STEM programming at XPONENTIAL continues to grow as we work with industry partners to provide hands-on support for educational initiatives.
RoboNation provides hands-on robotics education and empowers students to seek innovative solutions to global challenges. Through nine targeted programs, RoboNation cultivates the next generation of engineers, manufacturers, fabricators, programmers, and more.
Every year, we highlight hot market segments driving economic change within the uncrewed industry. Pavilions also feature regions that are a hotbed of uncrewed systems innovation, thanks to favorable regulations, proximity to university and training facilities, and talented workforces.