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Honeywell's Forge Cognition Cuts False Security Alarms 90% at NVIDIA's Voyager Campus
Honeywell Technologies launched an agentic AI platform for facility operations on October 14, partnering with NVIDIA and Dell Technologies to combine real-time digital twins with autonomous building agents.
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DexForce Hits $1.4 Billion Valuation Training Humanoid Robots With Synthetic Data, Toyota and Samsung Already On Board
A Shenzhen startup's simulation engine is replacing physical training floors for tier-1 manufacturers, compressing humanoid robot deployment cycles that once required thousands of hours of human demonstration.
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Physical Intelligence Opens Pi API Beta, Moving Robot Policy Development from Months to Days
Physical Intelligence has made its robotic foundation models available to outside teams through a hosted fine-tuning service, compressing policy development cycles from months to days for early adopters in manufacturing, agriculture, and food service.
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XR Association Declares Mission Accomplished, Shuts Down by Year-End After Seven Years
The industry's founding XR trade association is dissolving at year-end after seven years, transferring its advocacy programs to mainstream policy institutions and concluding that the technology no longer needs a dedicated champion.
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Markets
PACK EXPO International 2026 Opens With Four Days of Packaging Automation Showcases
North America's largest packaging and processing trade show returns to Chicago with more than 2,600 exhibitors, 150 free sessions, and a buyer agenda built around robotics, AI, and workforce automation.
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PMMI's 2026 State of the Industry Puts U.S. Packaging Machinery at $11.7 Billion
Flexibility, labor pressure, and early AI adoption are reshaping equipment decisions across U.S. and Canadian packaging machinery markets, according to the industry's annual benchmark report.
Enterprise
JLS Automation to Unveil VISION AI Pile-Picking System at PACK EXPO International 2026
The York, Pennsylvania robotics builder will run its AI-guided pile-picking system live at McCormick Place in Chicago this October, letting packaging engineers watch the technology work on real product variability.
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