Product Launch

Mooresville – – October 16, 2026 -- Greenworks Commercial will give away three OPTIMUS Crew battery-powered mowers at Equip Exposition 2026 in Louisville, led by a 60-inch ride-on zero-turn mower with an MSRP of $28,999.99.

Giveaway draws three winners live on Oct. 22

The second annual "Get Equipped Giveaway" is open only to show attendees who are U.S. residents aged 18 or older. Entries are taken on tablets at indoor Booth #3182. Winners must be present at the live drawing at 3:00 p.m. ET on Thursday, Oct. 22, to claim a prize.

The prizes are:

Redlands – October 16, 2026 -- The San Bernardino Valley Water Conservation District (SBVWCD) has launched Field Notes, a newsletter whose first issue reports 40,291 acre-feet of groundwater recharge during the 2025–26 water year and a $5.403 million U.S. Bureau of Reclamation grant for Oak Creek recharge basins.

First issue covers federal grant, recharge volumes and a fellowship

The issue, released the first week of October, also reports a GrizzlyCorps fellowship for SBVWCD intern Maya Stokes. The Reclamation grant is earmarked for the Oak Creek recharge basins.

The newsletter draws on staff work in the Santa Ana River Wash and along Mill Creek, where the district captures, stores and monitors the valley's groundwater.

Las Vegas – October 16, 2026 -- CTEK will unveil seven new products at SEMA 2026, using the show to put its latest battery technology in front of automotive trade visitors in the Central Hall.

CTEK stages a 1970 Dodge Charger from five Fast & Furious films at its booth

The company is pairing the launches with a 1970 Dodge Charger owned and supplied by Hollywood car specialists Moviemachines. The car appeared in Fast & Furious, Fast Five, Furious 7, F9: The Fast Saga and Fast X.

The Charger was originally finished in satin black and was repainted gloss black for Fast Five. Paul Walker drove it in that film's opening prison-bus escape sequence. CTEK will also show other cars from Moviemachines.

Englewood – October 16, 2026 -- MediOps has launched MediOps Aviation, a charter service for radiopharmaceutical distribution and organ transplant logistics, and named George J. Priester Aviation (GJP) as its preferred charter partner. GJP provides all flight operations.

MediOps Aviation replaces multi-vendor charter coordination with a single accountable provider

MediOps acts as the healthcare logistics and coordination layer. GJP supplies the aircraft, flight operations and safety infrastructure. The companies say traditional charter arrangements require coordination across multiple vendors. MediOps Aviation instead covers the full chain, from aircraft dispatch through ground delivery.

Stockholm – October 16, 2026 -- Saab has presented the first of three GlobalEye airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft ordered for the Swedish Air Force by the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV).

Aircraft enters testing and verification ahead of first flight

The aircraft now moves into a testing and verification phase. First flight and delivery to the customer follow. The source gives no dates for either milestone.

Sweden has ordered three GlobalEye aircraft across two contracts

FMV contracted the first two aircraft in 2022, with an option for additional aircraft. A third GlobalEye was ordered in 2024. The option has not been exercised beyond that third order, according to the information provided.

Shanghai – October 16, 2026 -- RoboParty has launched RP1 (ROBOTO 01), a humanoid robot with open access to its hardware designs, low-level drivers, control algorithms and software stack, aimed at embodied AI research. The standard version stands about 1.3 meters tall with 24 actuated degrees of freedom (DoF), while the Pro version offers 30.

RP1 opens actuator designs, firmware and control code to researchers

RoboParty is publishing the robot body design and technical resources for its in-house ROMOMO joint actuator modules, along with technical documentation and research materials. The company says the release covers mechanical structures, actuators, motion control, simulation environments, software development kits (SDKs) and training tools.

New York – October 15, 2026 -- Mindbeam raised the Level 2 KernelBench score of NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Super VL from 22.8% to 82.1% through post-training, ahead of the 57% accuracy the company reports for GPT 5.6 Sol.

The New York-based AI infrastructure company announced a collaboration with NVIDIA covering two layers of the open source AI stack: a post-trained model that writes CUDA kernels, and an inference engine that serves NVIDIA's latest open models.

Litespark Nemotron 3.5 Super VL gains 11.2 points on Level 1 tasks

Mindbeam post-trained NVIDIA's Nemotron 3.5 Super VL (120B-A12B) to produce Litespark Nemotron 3.5 Super VL, an open-weights model for CUDA code generation. The task is to take a PyTorch module and generate a raw CUDA kernel that reproduces the forward pass within tight numerical tolerances while staying architecture-agnostic.

San Francisco – October 15, 2026 -- Benchling launched Science Foundries, a product that lets R&D teams run entire scientific processes with agents and scientists working from the same data, and made it available to its customers the same day.

Teams select a process or goal, such as producing proteins, optimizing a lead or improving a manufacturing process. They then define which steps agents run and where scientists must approve. Agents execute and monitor work, coordinate handoffs and flag key decisions to scientists.

Benchling has spent the past 18 months building AI into its platform. The company says agents are the fastest-growing capability it has released. Science Foundries extend agents from individual tasks to complete workflows.

New York – – October 15, 2026 -- Catalyst Power Holdings LLC has launched Catalyst Power for Senior Living & Care, an energy service that finances, builds and operates onsite cogeneration for care communities with no upfront investment from operators.

Service targets five senior care facility types with combined heat and power

The offering covers independent living, assisted living, memory care, life plan communities and skilled nursing facility operators. It is anchored by Combined Heat and Power (CHP), which Catalyst Power says best matches the continuous heating, hot water and power demand of care communities. Solar and energy storage are available where a site and its load profile support them.

CEO Gabriel Phillips said these buildings run domestic hot water, laundry, heating and cooling around the clock, year-round, and often must hold ambient temperatures within strict ranges. He called that load profile "perfect for CHP."

Spokane – October 15, 2026 -- AV Access has launched the 8KEX100-KVM, an HDMI 2.1 KVM extender that carries 8K@60Hz and 4K@120Hz video plus USB signals up to 100m (328ft) over a single Cat 6/6A/7 cable.

The product is now available to professional users and system integrators. It supports HDMI 2.1 and HDCP 2.3.

Single-cable design with Power over Cable cuts installation complexity

The extender runs on one Cat cable and supports Power over Cable (PoC), which AV Access says reduces cable complexity. Further features include USB 2.0 connectivity, RS-232 passthrough and EDID management for professional AV deployments.