Customer-Centric "Huawei + Partners" Collaboration System Launched to Scale AI Across Industries

SHANGHAI, Sept. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- At HUAWEI CONNECT 2026, Leo Chen, Huawei's Senior Vice President and President of Enterprise Sales, announced the new SCALE partner support system during his "Scaling All Intelligence for Industry Success" keynote address. Huawei intends to use this new system to equip partners with the capabilities they need to help customers move intelligent transformation from individual pilots to large-scale adoption. Chen also shared new insights and practices Huawei has developed on intelligent industry benchmarks.

Chen stated, "The intelligent era is approaching fast. Huawei works with partners to provide products and solutions that solve real business problems. We want to share our own capabilities with partners. By empowering partners, they can bring their unique strengths to bear, and help customers move from compute construction to intelligent application. Huawei is fully committed to helping our customer-centric 'Huawei + Partners' collaboration system thrive. We want to help partners solve customer issues more efficiently and help customers achieve large-scale AI adoption."

Partners face five challenges when scaling intelligent industry projects: solution development, integration verification, solution delivery, O&M, and system collaboration. To help partners overcome these challenges, the SCALE partner support system offers five types of support: Scenario-based Solutions, Co-innovation, Aligned Marketing, Local Services, Consistent Quality, and Efficient Collaboration. These enhanced support offerings provide partners with systematic support from solution development, verification, launch, delivery, and operations, helping them move from benchmark intelligent projects to large-scale AI adoption.

Scenario-based Solutions: Huawei provides open, easy-to-integrate AI foundation products that partners can use to rapidly develop new solutions. These products cover compute, storage, networks, security, and data protection, and include the new SMECE and the DCS AI Solution that help partners more efficiently convert their industry know-how into feasible intelligent solutions. Huawei's partners have used these products to develop more than 100 scenario-based solutions for eight industries that accelerate AI adoption.

Co-innovation: To help partners replicate benchmark experience and validate solution integration more efficiently, Huawei has opened up its reference architectures and verification environments. This includes the reference architectures for 48 high-value scenarios that partners can refer when designing solutions, setting up test environments, developing applications, and performing debugging and verification. Besides, Huawei provides unified interfaces and development and verification tools through its cloud-based OpenLab to make solution more efficient.

Aligned Marketing: Huawei is committed to helping its partners identify customer needs, launch new solutions, and make standout solutions more visible, verifiable, and replicable so customers can quickly find the solutions they want. Huawei has opened up its Market-to-Lead (MTL) process capabilities to partners and worked together to effectively bring customer-facing solutions to market. Huawei has launched solutions alongside partners, showcased standout solutions at Huawei's booths and exhibition halls, and built industry showcases with customers. These efforts have enabled customers to better understand the value of solutions and actual validation results. Huawei has worked with partners to build more than 130 showcases with customers globally.

Local Service, Consistent Quality: Huawei is expanding and localizing its partner services, so that partners can offer customers the same high-quality service as Huawei. Partners can access the knowledge, tools, expertise, and service experience through Huawei's O3 Partner Service Enablement Platform. Huawei offers talent development and certification programs for various service roles, which have been used to cultivate more than 50,000 AI professionals over the past 3 years.

Efficient Collaboration: Huawei provides two one-stop intelligent platforms for partners that simplify the way they work with Huawei. These platforms (HUAWEI eFly and HUAWEI ePartner) serve as unified portals that help partners navigate Huawei's processes, and provide partners with the data they need to carry out one-stop marketing, transaction, and service operations. Partners gain access to the documentation, tools, IT interfaces, and AI-assisted configuration and intelligent Q&A tools, that help make serving customers more efficiently.

Chen said, "In the era of true intelligence, scaling proven practices across industries will allow more companies to thrive. Industrial intelligence is creating unprecedented opportunities, and Huawei wants to work with our customers and partners to deploy successful benchmarks at scale, and bring the benefits of AI to more industries, organizations, and people."

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GoChengdu: The Sun and Immortal Bird Flies Over the Nile: "Dialogue Between Solar Civilizations--Chengdu Panda Week Series" Held in Cairo

CAIRO, Sept. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- On September 17, local time, the "Dialogue Between Solar Civilizations—Chengdu Panda Week Series" kicked off at the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Cairo, Egypt. The event featured a thematic exhibition on the ancient Shu civilization and a culture and tourism promotion conference for Chengdu, drawing tourists from multiple countries as well as local residents to visit and take photos. The year 2026 marks the 70th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Egypt. With civilization serving as a bond, this event has added a vivid Chengdu footnote to the millennia-old friendly exchanges between the two nations.

More than one hundred guests from institutions including the Chinese Embassy in Egypt, the Egyptian State Ministry of Information, the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, and Cairo University attended the event, witnessing the announcement of multiple cooperative achievements. The event focused on the shared core of the two great civilizations: the ancestors of ancient Shu revered the sun, embedding their understanding of the universe into the Gold Ornament of the Sun and Immortal Bird; ancient Egyptians worshipped the sun god Ra and pursued the light. Despite being thousands of miles apart, these two ancient civilizations share highly resonant spiritual aspirations.

Themed "Dawn, Power, and Eternity," the exhibition highlighted 1:1 replicas and 3D-printed models of 16 representative artifacts carefully selected from the Jinsha and Sanxingdui ruins. These include monumental relics such as the Gold Ornament of the Sun and Immortal Bird, the Large Gold Mask, the Bronze Standing Figure, and the Sanxingdui Gold Scepter. The Golden Panda Awards cultural space established on-site attracted significant attention, utilizing an audio-visual platform to continually foster exchanges and mutual learning between Chinese and foreign civilizations.

Held concurrently, the culture and tourism promotion conference titled "Chengdu, More Than Just Giant Pandas" attracted nearly one hundred Egyptian representatives from various sectors.

In his address, Zhu Xiaozhong, Minister Counselor of the Chinese Embassy in Egypt, stated that since the establishment of diplomatic ties between China and Egypt 70 years ago, the comprehensive strategic partnership between the two nations has continued to deepen. The embassy will persistently build bridges of communication, promote the normalization of cultural exchanges and personnel visits between both sides, and consolidate the foundation of mutual affinity between the two peoples. At the event, Sichuan Yuanhai International Travel Agency signed an agreement with a local Egyptian travel agency, reaching a consensus on a new round of cooperation for culture and tourism.

This year marks the eighth anniversary of the launch of the direct flight between Chengdu and Cairo. On the eve of the event, Sichuan Airlines launched an in-flight cultural interaction utilizing its direct flights, promoting Chengdu to domestic and international passengers through formats such as bilingual city magazines and fun quizzes. A special feature in the September issue of HELLO Chengdu systematically outlined the three-millennium-long civilizational origins between Chengdu and Cairo, as well as the achievements of their contemporary cooperation in multiple fields.

Mohamed Shoman, Advisor on Public Communication and Training Affairs to the Egyptian State Minister of Information, stated that this event represents a beautiful encounter and an in-depth dialogue between two major civilizations. He expressed his expectation for friends from all countries to jointly fulfill the "solar appointment" of ancient Shu, and to experience the unique charm of the integration and coexistence of different civilizations.

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EXPO 2027 Belgrade Launches "Visit Serbia" Campaign in Bratislava, Inviting Slovakia to Explore New Partnerships and Destinations

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia, Sept. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- EXPO 2027 Belgrade brought its "Visit Serbia" roadshow to Bratislava, bringing together Serbian and Slovak travel and business representatives to build partnerships ahead of the Western Balkans' first Specialised Expo.

The event included presentations and B2B meetings with Slovak travel agencies, tour operators and business leaders. EXPO 2027 Belgrade will take place from 15 May to 15 August 2027 under the theme "Play for Humanity: Sport and Music for All." More than 135 countries have confirmed their participation, with several million visits expected over 93 days.

"Slovakia was the first country to sign the Participation Contract for EXPO 2027 Belgrade, reflecting the strong ties between our business communities," said Igor Kovačević, Executive Director of EXPO 2027 Belgrade. "We are inviting Slovak travel professionals to develop itineraries and experience Serbia firsthand."

Slovakia's Commissioner General for EXPO 2027 Belgrade, Lukáš Parízek, outlined preparations for Slovakia's national presence and pavilion, emphasising the practical trade benefits for Slovak delegates. Serbia is Slovakia's most important trading partner in the Western Balkans. According to the Slovak Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, bilateral trade reached approximately EUR 1.3 billion in 2025, an increase of 15 percent year-on-year.

"EXPO 2027 Belgrade is much more than a 93-day international event", said Matej Fekete, Director General of SLOVAKIA TRAVEL "From a tourism perspective, it is a global platform where destinations can build awareness, create partnerships, and inspire future travel." The "Visit Serbia" campaign encourages Slovak travel professionals to promote Serbia's historic sites, cities, mountains, spas, cuisine and hospitality.

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New platform makes proven AI capabilities available for MSPs, software vendors and business users to configure and compose

LONDON, Sept. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- askelie® today announced the launch of its Operational AI Platform, opening the proven technology behind its enterprise AI solutions to MSPs, software vendors and business users.

The platform enables customers and partners to configure and compose AI-powered solutions using proven, reusable askelie capabilities. Rather than building an AI foundation from scratch, organisations can combine existing capabilities to address real business needs — providing a practical route from AI ambition to business value, with faster time to value, lower cost and less risk.

"We've spent years using askelie to rapidly deliver enterprise-grade AI solutions. What we're doing now is opening that capability up," said Derek Kilroe, CEO and Founder, askelie. "For the first time, MSPs, software vendors and business users can take proven AI capabilities and configure and compose their own solutions for real business operations — without having to build the underlying AI platform themselves."

Built around Understand • Decide • Act • Control, the platform brings together AI intelligence, data, knowledge, workflows, enterprise integrations, security and governance.

At launch, customers and partners can configure and compose existing capabilities to create and adapt AI-powered Assistants and Automations around specific business needs. The platform provides the foundation for increasingly sophisticated AI applications, including Digital Workers and Autonomous Applications.

"Customers shouldn't have to assemble an AI technology stack before they can solve a business problem," said Ian Halliday-Pegg, Chief Product Officer, askelie. "askelie brings the capabilities needed for operational AI together in a platform that can be combined and reused for different needs."

The platform is designed to be practical, affordable and trusted. Proven, reusable capabilities reduce the need to build enterprise AI from scratch; model choice and consumption-based pricing help control costs; and security, governance, human oversight and auditability are built into the platform.

The platform also enables MSPs to configure and reuse AI-powered services across customers, while software vendors can extend existing products, enhance them with external data and context, and configure new AI-powered capabilities.

The askelie Operational AI Platform is available from 21 September 2026.

For more information, visit www.askelie.io

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UK digital pathology provider Source BioScience chooses Sectra to enable seamless pathology collaboration across the NHS

LINKÖPING, Sweden, Sept. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- International medical imaging IT and cybersecurity company Sectra (STO: SECT B) has signed an agreement with Source BioScience UK Ltd (Source BioScience) in the UK to deliver its service for advanced share and collaborate workflows. As the first Sectra customer in this domain, Source BioScience will now be able to support NHS organisations that need to send pathology cases to external specialists. This lays the foundation for national telepathology networks in the UK, and for improved access to specialist pathologists.

The service, Sectra Image Exchange Portal (Sectra IEP), is a cloud-based, vendor-neutral platform for exchanging and collaborating around medical images. It is already used by more than 500 institutions, mainly within radiology. Recently, the service has undergone substantial modernisation which now makes it possible for healthcare providers to benefit from new advanced workflow functionality, for the service to be used by specialties other than radiology and for customers to move beyond image sharing to managing workflows between organisations.

"This milestone integration will give the NHS a seamless digital pathway to external specialists, with diagnoses delivered straight back into its own records - reducing turnaround times, easing consultant shortages and tackling reporting backlogs," says Nick Bills, Healthcare Director at Source BioScience.

Source BioScience is a UK laboratory services provider specialising in histopathology and genomics. Its pathology business supports more than 85 NHS trusts alongside a network of private healthcare clinics, with histopathology delivered from laboratories in Nottingham, Chichester and Cambridge.

NHS pathology services are handling growing case volumes with a limited number of reporting consultants, and increasing subspecialisation means the pathologist best suited to a case is often at another organisation. Sending work to external capacity providers today typically relies on bespoke arrangements between individual laboratories, including the transportation of physical glass slides. This slows reporting times and creates administrative overhead for both the sending and receiving laboratories. With Sectra's service, a case can be created as a job directly from a laboratory's worklist, delegated to a receiving organisation, and the completed report returned to the referring organisation's own records.

"IEP is the backbone of image sharing across the NHS. With our modernised platform, we are introducing advanced workflows between healthcare organisations, and extending that trusted national network into pathology. Connecting trusts directly with external specialists like Source BioScience means cases and completed reports move seamlessly across organisational boundaries. It is a step towards an NHS where expertise is always within reach, and where work moves between organisations as easily as it moves within them," says Jane Rendall, Managing Director for Sectra UK and Ireland.

The three-year contract was signed in the second quarter of Sectra's 2026/2027 fiscal year. Up to 60,000 cases are expected during the first year, scaling up in subsequent years.

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Turing Award Laureate, Moderna Co-Founder, BioInnovation Institute CEO and Helmholtz Munich Computational Health Director to Advise on Decoding the Logic that Governs How Cells Change and Carrying That Knowledge Into Medicine

BOSTON, Sept. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Cellular Intelligence, the AI company building a universal foundation model of cell signaling, today announced that Yann LeCun, Robert "Bob" Langer, Jens Nielsen and Fabian Theis have joined its Scientific Advisory Board. Langer joins the company's Board of Directors as an observer.

Between them, the four hold a Turing Award, more than 1,500 patents, the founding of Moderna, the leadership of the Novo Nordisk Foundation's BioInnovation Institute and Germany's highest research honor. Their work and expertise tie directly to the key problems Cellular Intelligence was founded to solve: learning predictive models from complex systems, and turning that understanding into therapeutic applications.

"We are bringing together people who have changed what is possible in AI, biology and medicine to tackle a shared question: can we learn the rules that govern how cells change, and use that knowledge to help patients? Yann, Bob, Jens and Fabian bring the scientific imagination and rigor this challenge demands. Their perspectives will be invaluable as we connect predictive models to experiments and, ultimately, to therapeutic development," said Micha Breakstone, Ph.D., Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Cellular Intelligence.

Yann LeCun received the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award for foundational work in deep learning, founded Meta's Fundamental AI Research lab (FAIR) and served as the company's Chief AI Scientist from 2013 to 2025. He is Executive Chairman of AMI Labs, the world-model company he co-founded, and Silver Professor at New York University. His research centers on AI systems that learn how the world works and predict what happens when they act on it.

"The models that interest me learn how the world works from data and predict what happens when we act on it. Living cells present an extraordinarily rich version of that challenge. What excites me about Cellular Intelligence is the combination of new methods for large-scale cellular data collection, new phenomenological and causal models of cellular dynamics trained from this data, and a team with the ambition to connect the two. The possibility of learning principles that transfer across biological contexts is especially compelling," said Yann LeCun, Scientific Advisory Board member.

Robert "Bob" Langer is an Institute Professor at MIT, the institution's highest faculty rank, and the most cited engineer in history. He holds more than 1,500 issued and pending patents, and as a co-founder of Moderna and some 40 other companies, he has received the National Medal of Science, the National Medal of Technology and Innovation and the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering for work that turned drug delivery and tissue engineering into medicines that reach patients.

"I have been deeply impressed by the team Cellular Intelligence has brought together. What draws me to this company is the opportunity to connect a fundamental understanding of cell behavior with the practical work of developing medicines. If we can better predict how cells respond to an intervention, we can ask more precise questions, design better experiments and open new possibilities for patients. I am excited to help the team pursue that potential," said Robert "Bob" Langer, Scientific Advisory Board member and Board Observer.

Jens Nielsen is Chief Executive Officer of the BioInnovation Institute, the Novo Nordisk Foundation's DKK 3 billion-plus engine for founding and scaling life-science companies in Copenhagen, and Professor of Systems Biology at Chalmers University of Technology. Author of more than 900 scientific publications and founder of several biotech companies, he was knighted by Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II of Denmark in 2019 and is a member of the U.S. National Academies of Sciences and Engineering, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters.

"Understanding a cell means understanding how its many systems work together. Cellular Intelligence is bringing quantitative models and carefully designed experiments to that problem at an ambitious scale. I am excited by the opportunity to help turn that understanding into more predictable cell engineering and new therapeutic possibilities," said Jens Nielsen, Scientific Advisory Board member.

Fabian Theis is Director of the Computational Health Center at Helmholtz Munich, Scientific Director of Helmholtz AI and Professor of Mathematical Modeling of Biological Systems at the Technical University of Munich. A co-founder of the Human Cell Atlas and a member of its Board of Directors, he received the 2023 Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, Germany's highest research honor, for machine-learning methods that predict how cells develop and respond to drugs, and is a member of the Leopoldina, the German National Academy of Sciences, and EMBO.

"Progress in modeling cells depends on the quality of the questions our data allow us to ask. What excites me about Cellular Intelligence is its ambition to build rich experimental data and predictive models together. That combination creates an opportunity to test how well models generalize across biological contexts and to learn systematically from where they fall short," said Fabian Theis, Scientific Advisory Board member.

The appointments follow Arjun Raj's arrival as Chief Scientific Officer and scientific co-founder, and the company's acquisition of STEM-PD, an investigational Parkinson's disease cell therapy with FDA Fast Track designation, from Novo Nordisk in May 2026. Manufacturing and clinical data from the program flow back into the company's models. The company's investors include Khosla Ventures, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and Novo Nordisk.

About Cellular Intelligence

Cellular Intelligence is a clinical-stage AI company building a universal foundation model of cell signaling to understand, predict and ultimately control cellular behavior. Based in Boston, the company runs experimental biology, machine learning and therapeutic development as a single program, with regenerative medicine at its core. Learn more at www.cellularintelligence.com.

STEM-PD is an investigational therapy. Its safety and efficacy have not been established.

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SKF launches Progressive Lubrication Pump PLP to increase uptime and reduce maintenance costs

GOTHENBURG, Sweden, 21 September 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- SKF today announces the launch of its new Progressive Lubrication Pump (PLP), an automatic lubrication solution designed to help customers improve machine reliability, reduce maintenance effort, and lower the total cost of ownership.

Built on Lincoln and SKF lubrication expertise, PLP combines proven performance with a modern, modular design. Suitable for industrial and mobile applications, it simplifies installation, operation, and service while providing improved visibility of lubricant levels and system status.

"Every hour of unplanned downtime matters. PLP helps customers improve equipment reliability, simplify maintenance, and keep their operations running efficiently", says Christophe Laurans, Head of Automatic Lubrication Systems.

Key customer benefits include:

- Faster installation and commissioning

- Reduced maintenance through improved accessibility and serviceability

- Reliable lubrication that helps protect critical components

- Better control through grease level monitoring and connectivity options

- Easier upgrades and long-term investment protection

PLP is the first product family built on SKF's new lubrication platform, creating a foundation for future developments and expanded functionality.

"PLP delivers immediate performance benefits while providing a progressive lubrication platform that can evolve with our customers' needs of asset reliability in mobile and fixed equipment", says Philipp Herlein, Managing Director, SKF Lubrication Lifetime Solutions

Automatic lubrication systems help ensure that the right amount of lubricant reaches critical components at the right time, reducing manual lubrication tasks, supporting longer equipment life, improving worker safety, and helping customers increase productivity while lowering maintenance costs.

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Arc XP Launches Compass: A Home Page That Knows Who's Reading It, and a Newsroom That Still Decides What Leads

Arc XP Compass recognizes a returning reader, remembers what they read last, and shows them what they missed. Editors still decide what leads.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Arc XP, the media technology platform built inside The Washington Post, launched Arc XP Compass, a personalization engine for news home pages and section fronts. Arc XP Compass tells a returning reader from a first-time one, remembers what each read last, and rebuilds the page around it. It is the experience Instagram and TikTok trained a generation to expect, applied to news. The difference is who sets the priorities: editors still decide what leads.

Publishers just crossed a threshold. Social media and video networks have, for the first time, overtaken publishers' own websites and apps as the most common way people get news, used by 54% of respondents across 48 markets against 51% for news organizations' own sites and apps, according to the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism's Digital News Report 2026.

Catch Me Up is the clearest example. A wildfire breaks out Monday, and a reader follows the first evacuation orders that night. She is off the news for three days. By Thursday, the story has moved four times: containment lines held, two neighborhoods cleared to return, the county opened an investigation into the local utility, the casualty count revised. Arc XP Compass knows she was here and where she stopped, and opens with a recap of what changed while she was gone, in order, built from the newsroom's own reporting rather than a generated summary. A first-time visitor sees none of it.

Behind that summary, every update on the fire sits in a single storyline called Dynamic Timelines, instead of scattering across a dozen separate links. Editors keep their hands on the wheel: Editorial Priority Controls lets them pin, boost, or bury any story directly, so the personalization never drifts from the newsroom's own judgment.

The pressure is concentrated among younger readers. Among 18-to-24-year-olds, 52% now name social media, video networks or AI chatbots as their main way of getting news, 32 points ahead of the next source. Publishers' own sites and apps are no longer the main source of news for any age group globally. Ten percent worldwide used a standalone AI chatbot for news last week, up from 7% a year earlier, and 16% among under-35s. Referral traffic is fragile too: Google Discover traffic to Reach, the UK's largest commercial news publisher, fell 46% in the second half of 2025, per the company's investor disclosure.

A general-purpose chatbot cannot replicate what a newsroom builds over years: an editorial voice, a reader's trust, and an archive of its own reporting. Global trust in answers from AI chatbots sits at 20%, against 37% for news overall. Arc XP calls the approach adaptive discovery.

Arc XP Compass is platform-agnostic. It works with any content management system or delivery stack, whether or not a newsroom runs the rest of its site on the Arc XP hybrid CMS platform.

"Publishers don't want to hand their relationship with readers over to somebody else's algorithm. They want a better version of their own front page," said Ryan Gladstone, Director of Product Engineering, Arc XP. "Arc XP Compass lets a newsroom's priorities guide the experience while still meeting each reader where they left off. A chatbot can't do that, and a generic recommendation engine won't respect the newsroom."

Availability

Arc XP Compass is generally available beginning September 2026. To view a short video of Arc XP Compass, please visit: https://hubs.la/Q04xNZX50   

About Arc XP

Arc XP is the platform for modern media, built inside The Washington Post, which still runs on it today. Newsrooms, digital publishers, and broadcasters use Arc XP to publish faster, own their audience relationships, and diversify revenue, including The Irish Times, Libération, L'Express, Madsack, Graham Media Group, and Sky News. Arc Intelligence grounds AI in each organization's own content and governance rules, so editors stay in control of what is published. Arc XP supports more than 3,000 sites worldwide, with a migration path proven by publishers who've already made the move. Learn more at www.arcxp.com.

Sources for cited statistics: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Digital News Report 2026 (reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/digital-news-report/2026). Reach figure as reported by Press Gazette, 3 March 2026, and cited in the same report.

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Legend Robot Showcases CE-Compliant Autonomous Solution for European Smart Construction at BATIMAT 2026

PARIS, Sept. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Aligning with BATIMAT 2026's overarching theme, "Le bâtiment en mouvement" (Construction in Motion), Legend Robot, in strategic partnership with European partner ROBOSWISS AG, previewed its market-leading autonomous latex paint and putty spraying robot for BATIMAT 2026 (Stand F090, Hall 1, Paris Expo). Engineered to full EU CE standards, the AI-driven system directly addresses European skilled labor shortages, accelerates eco-friendly building modernization, and delivers unmatched operational stability and precision across complex European jobsite environments.

Field-Proven 237 m²/h Productivity in Greece

Validating real-world performance during a landmark hotel renovation project for Gnosis Investments Group in Athens, Greece, Legend Robot's continuous spraying fleet demonstrated unmatched jobsite flexibility and resilience:

- Peak Speed Benchmark: Achieved an industry-leading peak spraying output of 237 m²/hour, drastically compressing refurbishment schedules.

- Multi-Layout Coverage: Executed precise 2-coat and 3-coat latex wall finishing across 19 distinct room layouts，successfully compensating for manual substrate imperfections.

- Resilient Operation & Green Safety: Powered via direct electrical stabilization during demanding brownfield operations, combining full EU CE safety compliance with up to 15% material waste reduction to meet stringent European ESG targets.

Next-Gen Technology Roadmap: From Automation to Autonomy

At BATIMAT 2026, Legend Robot unveils its advanced AI engineering roadmap, transforming traditional finishing machinery into self-adapting, fully autonomous construction agents:

- Data-Driven Self-Optimization (+30% Efficiency): By ingesting real-time jobsite datasets, AI closed-loop models dynamically optimize spraying trajectories, velocity, and standoff distance, targeting a 30% productivity gain over Gen-3 units.

- Dynamic Perception & Real-Time Obstacle Avoidance: Integrated sensors automatically detect structural beams, utility conduits, and dynamic obstacles, seamlessly re-routing spray paths in real time to minimize human intervention.

- True Autonomous Execution: Unifies 3D spatial scanning and algorithmic path planning, empowering robots to comprehend site topography, adapt to spatial variations, and autonomously elevate finishing consistency.

"Across Europe, we prove that true jobsite autonomy, high efficiency, and eco-friendly standards can coexist seamlessly on modern European construction projects," said Jason Liang, Marketing Director at Legend Robot.

Connect at BATIMAT 2026: Stand F090, Hall 1 | Sep. 28 – Oct. 1, 2026

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STOCKHOLM, Sept. 21, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Following a long and successful career as CFO and more than nine years as CFO and Executive Vice President at Essity, Fredrik Rystedt has informed the company of his wish to retire during 2027. The process of appointing a successor will begin immediately.

Fredrik Rystedt will remain in his current role until a successor has been appointed and an orderly handover has been completed.

"During his years at Essity, Fredrik Rystedt has made significant contributions to the company's value creation and financial strength. Through his experience, broad and deep expertise, and strong commitment, he has played, and continues to play, an important role in Essity's development. Until a successor is in place, I look forward to continuing to work closely with Fredrik, with a clear focus on the company's profitable growth and strategic priorities," says Ulrika Kolsrud, President and CEO of Essity.

"It has been a privilege to be part of Essity's development during these years. Together, we have strengthened the company's financial position and built a strong platform for continued profitable growth. I am proud of what we have achieved and look forward to continuing to contribute fully and ensure a smooth transition before I leave Essity," said Fredrik Rystedt, CFO and Executive Vice President of Essity.

NB: This information is such that Essity Aktiebolag (publ) is obligated to make public pursuant to the EU Market Abuse Regulation. The information was submitted for publication, through the agency of the contact person set out below, at 07:55 CET on September 21, 2026.

Karl Stoltz, Public relations Director, +46 (0) 709 426 338, [email protected]  

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Sandra Åberg, Vice President Investor Relations, +46 (0) 70 564 96 89, [email protected] 

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