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Ato is the Voice-First AI Companion to Combat Senior Loneliness and Empower Family Caregivers

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Ato is an AI Care Companion company on a mission to end senior loneliness and empower older adults through technology that respects their independence. Based in San Francisco and founded in 2025, Ato’s voice-first device and Family App help seniors stay connected, active, and engaged—while giving families peace of mind. With 1,300+ devices in the field serving users with an average age of 82 and unseen retention numbers, Ato is proving that technology can fight loneliness at scale without treating seniors like patients or children.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 29, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — Ato (heyato.ai), an innovative consumer technology company, is proud to share the availability of its flagship conversational AI companion designed exclusively for older adults. Engineered from the ground up as a voice-first, screen-free device, Ato aims to ease isolation, support mental well-being, and provide unprecedented peace of mind for family caregivers.

Ato’s voice-first device and Family App help seniors stay connected, active, and engaged—while giving families peace of mind.

With over 50 million Americans currently part of the “Sandwich Generation”—balancing the care of aging parents alongside their own children—the demand for intuitive eldercare technology has never been greater. However, traditional “smart” displays often impose steep learning curves, relying on visual acuity, fine motor skills, and complex menus that can frustrate seniors.

Ato takes a fundamentally different, human-centric approach. The tabletop device is 100% screen-free and proactively initiates natural conversations based on the user’s daily routines, bridging the gap between independence and support.

“My grandfather Beto was curious, sharp, and full of stories—but technology always got in the way. Screens, tiny buttons, and confusing menus made him give up on devices that were supposed to help,” said Juan Cereigido, Co-Founder and CEO of Ato. “When conversational AI made it possible to interact with technology just by talking, I knew this was the moment to build something different. Ato empowers older adults with a companion that respects their intelligence and independence, while reducing the mental load on the families who care about them.”

Privacy-First Connection for Families While seniors enjoy meaningful, latency-free dialogue, families stay connected through the companion Ato Family App. The platform operates on a strict “Privacy First” framework, ensuring that caregivers stay informed without intruding on their loved one’s autonomy.

Key features of the Ato ecosystem include:

Conversational AI Companionship: A low-latency model that understands tone and emotion, remembers past conversations, and initiates daily check-ins.Peace of Mind Reports: The Family App provides activity summaries confirming the loved one is engaged, ensuring family members never hear or see the actual private conversations.Two-Way Messaging: Families can send short text messages directly to the device, to which the senior can seamlessly reply using their voice.Routine Reminders: Caregivers can easily schedule audible reminders for medications, appointments, and daily tasks.

“Ato helps ease loneliness, supports mental well-being, and turns daily conversations into real connection,” added Gaspar Habif, Co-Founder and CTO of Ato. “We talk to our users every week. That direct feedback loop with seniors is how we’ve built something that actually works for people in their 80s and 90s.”

Unprecedented Traction and Market Validation Founded in 2025 and backed by leading tech investors including Founders, Inc. and Guillermo Rauch (CEO Vercel), Ato has already shipped over 1,300 devices across its Early Access program. Boasting an average user age of 82, the platform has achieved an unprecedented ~60% retention rate—nearly three times the AgeTech industry average. The company is actively expanding its reach with assisted living pilots to further validate a B2B ‘per-seat’ licensing model, capturing value within the $600B caregiving economy.

About Ato Based in San Francisco, CA, Ato is an AI Care Companion company on a mission to end senior loneliness. Founded in 2025 by Juan Cereigido and Gaspar Habif, Ato develops voice-first smart devices and an integrated Family App to help older adults stay connected, active, and engaged while giving families peace of mind. For more information, visit https://www.heyato.ai/.

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Juan Cereigido — juan@heyato.ai

Gaspar Habif — gaspi@heyato.ai

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Techman Robot Targets Southeast Asian Smart Manufacturing Markets at Thailand Automation Show

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AI-guided smart cartoning & packing lines and the all-new lightweight TM3S cobot make their overseas debut.

BANGKOK, June 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Techman Robot, a global leader in collaborative robots and AI vision technology, will showcase its latest innovations at the “ME Assembly & Automation 2026”. Centered around the dual themes of “Smart Packaging Automation” and “High-Efficiency AI Inspection,” the company is introducing tailored solutions for the electronics manufacturing, automotive components, food & beverage, and consumer electronics sectors

AI Vision-Guided Smart Cartoning and Packing Line

To address the critical automation demands within e-commerce and retail product packaging, Techman Robot is highlighting its “Automated Cartoning and Packing Line”. This solution overcomes the traditional limitations of mechanical grippers in complex packaging environments by integrating Techman collaborative robot, advanced AI vision guidance systems, and dexterous gripping technologies.

Demonstrating a seamless synergy of “brain, eye, and hand,” the system automates cardboard fetching, precise positioning, box folding, cartoning, and transport. Featuring a modular design and rapid deployment capabilities, this solution significantly reduces line footprint, shortens implementation timelines, and enhances packaging efficiency and operational stability—making it ideal for high-mix, low-volume agile production.

The All-New Lightweight TM3S Cobot

Techman Robot is also debuting its latest flagship model, the brand-new “TM3S” collaborative robot. Engineered for on-site operations requiring frequent relocation and high flexibility, the TM3S boasts an ultra-lightweight design, weighing in at just 12 kilograms.

A key feature of the TM3S is its “Quick-release Connector” for cabling, which enables production engineers to install, disassemble, and relocate the unit within an exceptionally short timeframe, vastly improving operational mobility on the shop floor. Furthermore, the TM3S carries forward the signature feature of the Techman Robot family: the “Integrated Vision” system. This provides the robot with advanced spatial awareness and positioning capabilities, making it particularly suited for high-precision welding, assembly, workstation localization, and automated rapid inspection.

AI Flying Trigger Inspection & Instant Palletizer Solutions

Beyond its packaging and lightweight innovations, Techman Robot is demonstrating its “Flying Trigger AI Inspection” and “Instant Palletizer” systems.

Flying Trigger AI Inspection: Allows robots to perform real-time defect inspection and cosmetic recognition while in motion without pausing, driving significant leaps in both throughput and quality control.Instant Palletizer: Offers a streamlined setup and intuitive operation to help Southeast Asian food & beverage and 3C retail clients rapidly upgrade their end-of-line logistics and stacking efficiency, directly addressing regional labor shortages.  

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IR launches Iris for HPE Nonstop, bringing AI-powered observability insights to mission-critical infrastructure

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SYDNEY, June 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Integrated Research (ASX: IRI, “IR”), a leading global provider of observability solutions for mission‑critical payments, infrastructure and communications, today announced the launch of Iris for Nonstop, extending its conversational AI intelligence layer to HPE Nonstop environments.

Building on the success of Iris in multi‑vendor unified communications and collaboration (UC&C) observability, IR has embedded Iris directly into the Prognosis Platform for HPE Nonstop. This allows IT teams, business application stakeholders and more to ask questions in natural language and receive immediate, context‑rich answers about the health, performance and capacity of their Nonstop systems.

“Nonstop powers some of the world’s most critical transactions, but the data that keeps these environments running has traditionally been locked up in specialist tools and expertise,” said Ian Lowe, CEO at IR.

“With Iris for Nonstop, we’re providing AI powered intelligence direct to the IT function. Iris understands Nonstop, understands context unique to each clients environment, and can turn complex telemetry into actionable insight in seconds.”

AI‑powered observability for always‑on Nonstop environments

HPE Nonstop is a trusted platform for high‑volume, always‑on workloads in financial services, retail, telecommunications and other industries where downtime is not an option. IR’s Infrastructure suite, powered by Prognosis, has long helped clients monitor, troubleshoot and optimize the performance and availability of these environments with real‑time dashboards, alerting and automated reporting.

Iris for Nonstop builds on this foundation by adding a conversational AI layer that:

Answers complex questions in plain language – Operators can ask questions such as “Is CPU usage normal for this time period?” or “Can you show me the network traffic trends over the past 2 weeks?”, and Iris will respond with explanations, context and recommended next steps.Accelerates incident resolution – By synthesizing Prognosis’ real‑time telemetry into guided insights, Iris helps teams identify root causes faster, reducing mean time to resolution in high‑stakes Nonstop environments.Democratizes Nonstop expertise – Iris makes Nonstop performance and capacity data accessible to broader IT, business and executive stakeholders, with easy‑to‑consume natural‑language summaries and reports.Supports proactive capacity and batch planning – By leveraging Prognosis Infrastructure, Business Insight and Batch Manager capabilities, Iris can surface trends in capacity, usage patterns and batch workloads, helping teams plan ahead before issues impact production.

Unified intelligence layer for hybrid Nonstop, from core to edge

As Nonstop clients adopt virtual Nonstop, cloud deployments and hybrid infrastructures spanning core and edge, the complexity of managing performance and capacity continues to grow. The combination of Prognosis Server on Nonstop, Prognosis Edge, and now Iris for Nonstop gives organizations a unified intelligence layer over their distributed, mission‑critical environments.

“Our clients are running Nonstop everywhere – in data centers, in virtualized environments and at the edge,” said Ian Lowe. “By embedding Iris directly into our Infrastructure solutions, we’re giving our clients an AI assistant that understands their topology, their workloads and their SLAs, wherever Nonstop is deployed.”

Iris for Nonstop is available now with Prognosis 13.3, for clients using IR Infrastructure and the Prognosis Platform for HPE Nonstop. For more information, visit the website.

About IR
At IR, we power elite business performance. Trusted by the world’s largest organizations for more than 30 years, our market-leading observability solutions are powered by Prognosis – the real-time intelligence platform built for multi-vendor infrastructure, UC&CX and payments environments. To find out more, visit www.ir.com.

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Hon Hai Technology Group (Foxconn) Accelerates Global Leadership In AI Factories, Infrastructure At Europe’s VivaTech

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TAIPEI and PARIS, June 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Hon Hai Technology Group (Foxconn) (TWSE:2317), the world’s largest artificial intelligence server provider, accelerated its global leadership in AI factories and sovereign AI infrastructure by showcasing at VivaTech its end-to-end integration capabilities that also stand up the world’s most state-of-the-art, rack-scale AI supercomputer.

Considered Foxconn’s European debut and a nod to Europe’s biggest startup and tech event, the world’s largest electronics manufacturer brought the cutting-edge technology including NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72, NVIDIA HGX platforms and NVIDIA MGX architectures, as well as two of its electric vehicles and advances in humanoid robotics.

“Foxconn is connecting with transformation opportunities and diversified business models across European industries. By fostering technology collaboration with industry, start-ups, government and academia, we strengthen our Build-Operate-Localize presence in Europe,” said Foxconn Vice President and Spokesperson James Wu, referring to the Group’s innovative BOL business model that supports local communities.

Underscoring the market’s importance, Foxconn, with partners Bull of France, a leader in advanced computing and AI, and NVIDIA also announced a strategic milestone to build the NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 platform from Europe that will commercialize under the Bull brand.

At Foxconn Booth 2B41, the NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 represents the next frontier of Agentic AI. On display, as well, were NVIDIA HGX Rubin NVL8 and NVIDIA MGX 4U system, affirming the Group’s manufacturing strengths in high-density AI racks, compute trays, liquid cooling, power delivery, and system integration. Moreover, with its dedicated business unit for AI supercomputing & cloud operations, Visionbay.ai – which is an NVIDIA Cloud Partner (NCP) – the Group showed end-to-end solutions that cover the full stack AI factory operations to technical services and application ecosystems.

For the first time in Europe, the public can see and sit in two modern EVs offered by Foxconn unit FOXTRON Vehicle Technologies under a Contract Design and Manufacturing Service, or CDMS, business model. A MODEL B sporty crossover – being sold in Taiwan under the BRIA brand – and a MODEL D lifestyle multipurpose utility vehicle represent the Group’s capabilities in EV platforms, complete vehicle design, smart cockpits and advanced electronic/electrical (E/E) architectures.

Meanwhile, a wheeled humanoid demonstrates dual-arm collaboration for precision assembly tasks. The embodied intelligence is derived from actual factory scenarios, combining simulation-based training with on-site iteration to enable rapid deployment and scalable rollout across manufacturing facilities.

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