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Overview
- VivaTech opened in mid-June at Paris Porte de Versailles with robots visible across the show and heavy attendance following the event start on Wednesday, June 17.
- Several exhibitors presented highly agile humanoids that performed dance, martial-arts and ball-game routines while firms also demonstrated brain–computer interface prototypes that decode mental patterns and report roughly 97% success in tests.
- Journalists and exhibitors cautioned that many eye-catching displays are teleoperated or preprogrammed and that fully autonomous robots still struggle with routine tasks such as moving simple objects or serving reliably.
- On Wednesday, June 17, a RebuilderAI demonstration using two Unitree G1 humanoids struck background screens and shattered several televisions; there were no injuries but the widely shared video underscored reliability and safety worries.
- The fair paired technical showcases with high-profile keynotes and political visits, highlighted non-robot innovations like flood-survival capsules, and intensified debate over large gesture datasets, chip supply and France 2030 industrial policy.