--- title: "Opening: RoboLab & RoboArena" url: "https://www.upperaustria.com/en/oesterreich-veranstaltung/detail/430247539/opening-robolab-roboarena.html" description: "Will humanoid robots one day live among us as tireless, ever-loyal partners? Will they remain useless, expensive toys—grotesque machines that look surprisingly like us? Or will they even evolve into serious competition?" image: "https://www.upperaustria.com/fileadmin/user_upload/upperaustria/Logo_upperuastria_RGB_300x300px_Websites.png" date: 2017-02-22 modified: 2026-03-18 --- # Opening: RoboLab & RoboArena Opening: RoboLab & RoboArena ================================== 30.11.2026 / 18:30- 21:30 Linz, Ars Electronica Center Vorträge ![](https://assets.tourdata.at/260x195/266395/C16E7EE4DAF58783A07BC2D657730EA75B82E1A3A7908262E2FF40E10CF4ABB0/aec-deep-space-8k.jpg) View copyright © Linztourismus, Florian Voggeneder Close copyright [ ![Audience members in an immersive projection show featuring a giant human skeleton on the floor and anatomical illustrations on the wall.](https://assets.tourdata.at/x550/266395/C16E7EE4DAF58783A07BC2D657730EA75B82E1A3A7908262E2FF40E10CF4ABB0/aec-deep-space-8k.jpg "© Linztourismus, Florian Voggeneder") ](https://assets.tourdata.at/1920x/266395/C16E7EE4DAF58783A07BC2D657730EA75B82E1A3A7908262E2FF40E10CF4ABB0/aec-deep-space-8k.jpg) Ars-Electronica-Straße 1 4040 Linz [ open in Google Maps ](https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=Ars-Electronica-Stra%C3%9Fe%201%2C%204040%20Linz "Link will open in a new window") [ Open in Apple Maps ](https://maps.apple.com/place?address=Ars-Electronica-Stra%C3%9Fe%201%2C%204040%20Linz "Link will open in a new window") ![](https://static.ecmaps.de/staticmap.jpg?experience=webarchitektur-meta&lat=48.3097286&lon=14.2842307&width=991&height=450&project=ttg-basemap&zoom=2000&server=meta.tourdata.at) Free entry [ Event information ](#ttgCollapseBeschreibung) ------------------------------------------------- Will humanoid robots one day live among us as tireless, ever-loyal partners? Will they remain useless, expensive toys—grotesque machines that look surprisingly like us? Or will they even evolve into serious competition? Caught between science fiction and fears about the future, it’s hard to distinguish tech hype from realistic predictions about the future. But why do we build robots in our own image in the first place? And what might happen if machines behave like us? In the Ars Electronica Center’s new *RoboLab*, we take a look behind the facade of humanoid robots. We literally take them apart: head, hands, legs—and the technology that moves them. In the *RoboArena*, you’ll encounter your technological counterpart on equal footing and experience firsthand what it might look like when the boundaries between human and machine blur—and just how similar and yet how alien humanoid machines are to us at the same time. We cordially invite you to the opening at the Ars Electronica Center on Monday, November 30, 2026, at 6:30 p.m.! [ Contact ](#ttgCollapseKontakt) ---------------------------------- **Ars Electronica Center** Ars-Electronica-Straße 1, 4040 Linz Phone[+43 732 7272-0](tel:+4373272720) E-Mail[center@ars.electronica.art](#mailto) Web[ars.electronica.art/news/de/](https://ars.electronica.art/news/de/) book a ticket [book a ticket](https://ars.electronica.art/center/de/events/eroeffnung-robolab-roboarena/?occurrence=2026-11-30 "New window") --- **Legal contact information** Ars Electronica Linz GmbH & Co KG Ars-Electronica-Straße 1 AT-4040 Linz center@ars.electronica.art https://ars.electronica.art --- **We speak the following languages** German [ Event location ](#ttgCollapseVeranstaltungsorte) ---------------------------------------------------- **Ars Electronica Center** Ars-Electronica-Straße 1, 4040 Linz Phone [+43 732 7272-0](tel:+4373272720) E-Mail Web [ Arrival ](#ttgCollapseAnreise) ---------------------------------- [ Prices ](#ttgCollapsePreise) -------------------------------- - Free entry [book a ticket](https://ars.electronica.art/center/de/events/eroeffnung-robolab-roboarena/?occurrence=2026-11-30 "New window") [ Suitability ](#ttgCollapseEignung) -------------------------------------- - All weather [ Accessibility ](#ttgCollapseBarrierefreiheit) ------------------------------------------------- Please get in touch for more information. [ book a ticket ](https://ars.electronica.art/center/de/events/eroeffnung-robolab-roboarena/?occurrence=2026-11-30 "New window") [To the website](https://ars.electronica.art/news/de/) powered by [TOURDATA](https://www.tourdata.at "New window") [ ![TOURDATA Logo](https://www.upperaustria.com/fileadmin/templates/global/images/Logo-Tourdata.png "TOURDATA Logo") ](https://www.tourdata.at "New window")