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Waco, Texas – – September 28, 2026 -- AxisCare has launched Axi Assist, an AI-powered receptionist built into its home care management platform to handle caregiver call-offs and missed clock-ins around the clock, including nights, weekends, and holidays.

Axi Assist captures caregiver call-off details and triggers scheduling workflows immediately, even outside office hours.

The tool answers calls, records information, and starts rescheduling processes without waiting for a coordinator to check voicemail, addressing a recurring operational bottleneck for home care agencies that rely on on-call staff to cover gaps.

Chicago – September 25, 2026 -- RND Automation will run a live vertical pouching demonstration and unveil an expanded packaging-equipment lineup at PACK EXPO International 2026, scheduled for October 18-21 at McCormick Place in Chicago. The company will occupy Booth N-5115 in the North Hall, positioning itself as a supplier of configurable automation platforms rather than one-off custom machinery.

KANGA Poucher runs live throughout the four-day show

RND's KANGA Poucher will operate continuously at the booth, packaging a multitool that attendees can take home. The packaging web for the demonstration is supplied by Amcor. The company says the live run is designed to show a repeatable packaging platform that can flex across different products and package formats without requiring ground-up engineering.

New York – September 24, 2026 -- AutonomyAI has launched Discover Mode, completing its Autonomous Product Delivery system that turns a product manager's question into a review-ready pull request without engineering handoffs. More than 170 product teams, including Datadog, Nielsen, SolarWinds and SolarEdge, already run on the platform.

Discover Mode researches product questions across company data before a single line of code is written

A product manager can ask why signups are dropping or which issue customers report most, and AutonomyAI scans product analytics, support tickets, customer calls and the codebase to return an evidence-backed brief. The system can also flag improvements on its own by monitoring usage patterns, without a prompt from a human.

Gothenburg – September 24, 2026 -- Volvo Autonomous Solutions (V.A.S.) has hauled more than 3 million tonnes of material autonomously across its European mining and quarrying customer sites, marking a scale-up milestone for driverless heavy hauling technology.

Brønnøy Kalk reaches 1 million autonomous tonnes on steep Norwegian route

At Brønnøy Kalk's quarry in Norway, where autonomous hauling began in 2023, V.A.S. deploys nine autonomous trucks on a five-kilometer route linking the quarry to a crusher through long tunnels with steep inclines. The site crossed the 1-million-tonne autonomous hauling mark in 2025.

Boliden uses autonomous trucks for dam reinforcement at Garpenberg mine

In Sweden, Boliden's Garpenberg mine has used autonomous trucks to move material from a quarry to a dynamic unloading area as part of a dam reinforcement project.

Beijing – September 23, 2026 -- Beijing Tegene Robots Co., Ltd. has introduced a four-model 3D Sorter portfolio for warehouse and parcel operations, with mechanical throughput reaching 40,000 parcels per hour on its highest-capacity unit.

Tegene splits its sorter line into four configurations for distinct operational needs

The portfolio includes the 3D Sorter for standard parcels and multi-destination sorting, rated at up to 24,500 pph and 1,000 chutes. The 3D Sorter M targets high-throughput, multi-layer operations at up to 40,000 pph. The 3D Sorter E handles non-conveyable items, flat parcels, envelopes and complex destination flows, with capacity up to 31,000 pph and 1,500 configurable chutes. The 3D Sorter X is built for modular chute expansion. Tegene notes actual output depends on parcel size, weight, packaging condition, destination count, site layout and induction method.

London – September 21, 2026 -- askelie has launched its Operational AI Platform, giving managed service providers (MSPs), software vendors and business users direct access to the AI capabilities previously reserved for its enterprise deployments.

Platform lets customers configure AI tools instead of building them from scratch

The Operational AI Platform allows organisations to combine existing, reusable askelie capabilities to create AI-powered Assistants and Automations tailored to specific business needs. Askelie says the approach cuts the time, cost and risk typically associated with building an AI foundation internally.

Paris – September 21, 2026 -- Legend Robot previewed its CE-compliant autonomous latex paint and putty spraying robot at BATIMAT 2026, citing a field-validated peak output of 237 square meters per hour during a hotel renovation in Athens, Greece. The system, developed with European partner ROBOSWISS AG, is positioned to address skilled labor shortages across European construction markets while meeting EU CE safety standards.

Athens hotel project validates 237 m2/h spraying speed across 19 room layouts

During a brownfield renovation for Gnosis Investments Group in Athens, Legend Robot's continuous spraying fleet executed 2-coat and 3-coat latex wall finishing across 19 distinct room layouts, compensating for manual substrate imperfections. The robots operated on direct electrical stabilization throughout the project, combining CE safety compliance with a material waste reduction of up to 15%, according to the company.

Hoffman Estates, Ill. – September 20, 2026 -- Omron Automation Americas has introduced the NXR-S Series Simple Logic Safety I/O Block, a distributed safety solution delivering response times as fast as 15 milliseconds while maintaining centralized CIP Safety management.

NXR-S combines local safety logic with centralized CIP Safety control

Unlike conventional remote safety I/O architectures, the IP67-rated NXR-S moves safety decisions closer to the point of action on the machine. Omron states this reduces overall system complexity and simplifies safety-distance design for manufacturers standardizing safety architectures across multiple machine lines.

Singapore – September 19, 2026 -- Trip.Biz, the business travel arm of Trip.com Group, unveiled Agent ONE, an AI suite that cuts average trip booking time from 45 minutes to 2 minutes and reduces approval wait times from over an hour to under 3 seconds.

The announcement came at Transform 2026, a half-day summit held at the Mandarin Oriental, Singapore, that drew 200 senior leaders from travel, procurement, finance and HR functions across multinational corporations.

Pittsburgh – September 19, 2026 -- A patent-pending concrete-screeding machine designed to cut sidewalk-finishing crews from three workers to one has been submitted for licensing through InventHelp's national sales office.

Inventor targets labor reduction on concrete finishing crews

The inventor, based in Westford, N.Y., developed the Non-Vibrating Self-Propelled Sidewalk Screed Machine to automate the screeding step in concrete surfacing, a process traditionally requiring multiple hand laborers to maintain consistent finish quality.