Italy’s First AGV Expo Draws More Than 1,000 Visitors, Showcases Autonomous Transport Equipment

The first AGV Expo, held in Piacenza, Italy, in late October 2026, drew more than 1,000 visitors, roboticsandautomationnews.com reported on November 15, 2026. The three-day event, organized by Mediapoint & Exhibitions, brought together manufacturers, systems integrators and others working with AGVs, AMRs and related technologies.

UNDER-X was presented as equipment capable of carrying up to 1,500 kg, combining interchangeable attachments with LiDAR navigation. Its transport method, which does not use magnetic strips or reflectors, and its design for swapping attachments according to the application raise the question of how well it can fit material-handling processes in existing facilities.

More than 1,000 visitors indicates a notable turnout for the first edition of the exhibition. But visitor numbers alone do not measure AGV or AMR adoption, orders or investment appetite. The event’s scale should be considered separately from the spread of adoption in operating facilities. The exhibits included equipment for a range of tasks in factories and logistics facilities, from transport to pallet handling and cleaning. PROXAUT’s UNDER-X is designed to use interchangeable platforms, conveyors and other attachments, pointing to an approach in which a vehicle’s functions can be changed for different applications. However, its payload capacity of up to 1,500 kg and its dimensions alone are not enough to determine whether it meets conditions for deployment, such as aisle width, operating hours and handling precision. UNDER-X’s use of LiDAR, without the need for magnetic strips or reflectors, offers an option for operation without fixed guidance infrastructure on the floor. However, the article describes the machine’s navigation method but does not establish how much facility modification could be avoided or how deployment costs and operating burdens might change. The same exhibition also featured Lifter Mobile Robotics’ autonomous pallet transporter and VHIT Robotics’ stacker and pallet truck, suggesting that the issue is how to combine different transport and handling functions within a facility, rather than simply comparing individual machines’ performance. VHIT Robotics’ consideration of repetitive tasks for humanoid robots should be distinguished from demonstrations of the transport equipment on display. The article describes depalletizing and loading parts into machines as applications under consideration, not as evidence of actual deployment or performance. The next questions are how such equipment can be integrated and operated in existing facilities, and whether interest at the exhibition led to adoption. The article does not provide a breakdown of visitors, adoption figures or operating assessments of the equipment.