Xen Summit 2026

Humanoid robots are poised to become one of the defining technologies of the next decade, with explosive growth projected across applications from hazardous industrial work to elderly care. They are also emerging as a promising new frontier for embedded virtualization. A single robot must fuse safety-critical motion control, real-time sensor processing, and rich AI workloads onto one heterogeneous platform. Real-time is critical: a humanoid robot that misses a deadline can fall, or injure someone. Safety is also essential; Xen must split responsibilities into separate domains, each granted only the permissions it needs.

This presentation will show how these pieces come together into a virtualization architecture for humanoid robots. It will detail the permissions assigned to each domain, and explain why minimizing privilege is essential to both Safety and Security in a machine that shares physical space with people. We will also discuss how Xen enforces strict isolation and bounded latency across multiple architectures to make the next generation of humanoid robots safe, responsive, and dependable.