NINGBO, China, Dec. 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Smooth Motor, a global supplier with 30 years of experience in professional motion solutions, has been selected to join the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) project. It is a multinational initiative to build one of the world’s most advanced observatories.

Smooth Motor is providing high-precision stepper motors solutions for the telescope’s massive optical array. The motors operate the mirror adjustment systems, executing the tiny but crucial directional movements required for perfect alignment.

Engineered for exceptional accuracy in positioning and enduring performance across an anticipated 100-year service life, these solutions highlight Smooth Motor’s strengths in precision craftsmanship and resilience against harsh conditions—qualities that are in growing demand from OEMs and automation specialists around the globe.

Durable Precision for Extreme Conditions

The TMT’s mirror system faces constant exposure to temperature shifts, humidity, and vibration. To stay aligned, it requires microscopic adjustments. The stepper motors operate beneath the mirror panels, executing these precise angular movements to maintain optical focus for decades. Meeting such stringent conditions demonstrates Smooth Motor’s engineering maturity—where precision mechanics, material science, and modular control converge to achieve sustainable motion performance.

The Thirty Meter Telescope’s Warping Harness Actuator, which incorporates Smooth Motor’s linear stepper actuator design, has been formally documented in the SPIE conference proceedings (Warping Harness Actuator for the Thirty Meter Telescope Primary Mirror Segments, Proc. SPIE 11451, 2020).

The study describes Smooth Motor’s collaboration in developing corrosion-resistant, long-life linear actuators that passed extensive environmental and life-cycle testing under severe humidity and temperature variations—confirming their compliance with the telescope’s lifetime and reliability requirements.

A Reflection of Industrial Transition

The telescope’s century-long design mirrors a wider industrial transformation—from short-lived components to lifetime-reliable subsystems. With sustainability and overall lifecycle performance gaining ground as top concerns for OEMs around the world, engineers are demanding modular, validated, and long-life motion architectures.

Smooth Motor supports this transition by offering a complete, system-level motion package that goes beyond motors alone—combining pre-matched motors, encoders, drives, controllers, and the corresponding transmission structures or motion modules into an integrated solution. This cohesive architecture allows engineers to validate performance more quickly, streamline system integration, and maintain predictable costs and supply stability, enabling long-term reliability across advanced automation applications.

Technology Behind the Precision

Smooth Motor’s core competence stems from precision engineering grounded in material and process control. Each motor is built upon a mature design framework to ensure consistent and stable performance. Leveraging technical expertise across various industries, it addresses critical application challenges by selecting appropriate materials, delivering rapid response and reliable operation even under demanding conditions such as high humidity, extreme temperature variations, or high-speed scenarios. Furthermore, the integrated drive control system enables greater flexibility for innovation, simplifies structural design, and reduces both adaptation and learning costs.

From Astronomy to Industrial Automation

“Being part of the TMT collaboration validates our ability to meet the world’s toughest motion control challenges,” said Leon C, CMO of Smooth Motor. “The same engineering principles that ensure century-long reliability in astronomy directly benefit our partners in robotics, optics, and advanced automation.”

Smooth Motor’s telescope-grade technology now extends to sectors where precision and endurance are critical—such as semiconductor assembly, laboratory automation, and robotic actuation. This shift from high-end lab-grade precision to designs ready for big-scale manufacturing really spotlights Smooth Motor’s talent for turning fresh innovations into everyday industrial solutions.

Delivering Motion Precision Across Industries

Boasting over 30 years in the field, Smooth Motor has evolved from a basic stepper motor producer into a go-to supplier for bespoke motion systems. Its product lineup includes hybrid and linear stepper motors, can-stack and voice coil motors, plus specialized parts such as lead screws, guide rails, and custom-built assemblies. Drawing on top-tier machining skills and solid engineering insights, Smooth Motor puts together motion setups that hit the mark for needs in automation, robotics, medical tools, and semiconductor manufacturing.

Smooth Motor is actively teaming up with research groups and OEM allies to push forward cutting-edge motion systems that find the right mix of efficiency, seamless setup, and eco-conscious design.

About Smooth Motor

Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Ningbo, China, Smooth Motor is a certified ISO 9001, RoHS, and CE manufacturer specializing in precision motion solutions. With a 50,000-square-meter facility and decades of expertise in hybrid and linear stepper motor technology, Smooth Motor delivers customizable assemblies for automation, medical, semiconductor, and aerospace industries. The company’s engineering excellence and customer-centric approach have made it a trusted global partner for OEMs seeking high-performance and long-life motion control systems.

For details on partnerships or to ask for samples, head over to：
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Livelively USA combines AI insights with Eastern wellness principles to support healthier long-term weight management behaviors.

NEW YORK, Dec. 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Weight-loss medications are reshaping global healthcare, with the anti-obesity drug market projected to approach $100 billion by 2030, according to Goldman Sachs. As millions begin GLP-1 therapy, interest is growing around how to maintain strength, vitality, and well-being throughout treatment.

Livelively USA Inc. today introduced a metabolic wellness platform that integrates predictive AI with Integrative Longevity Science—focusing on circadian rhythms and somatic balance—to help GLP-1 users stay engaged in supportive nutrition, movement, and daily routines while working toward long-term health goals.

More than 37 million Americans currently use GLP-1 agonists such as Wegovy and Zepbound. Public health data shows many users struggle with consistency over time. Clinical literature also highlights that factors like nutrition, muscle maintenance, movement, and sleep play an important role in supporting well-being during weight loss. Livelively aims to make these supportive behaviors easier to access and sustain.

Livelively’s Approach: Western Technology Meets Eastern Wellness

“Most weight-loss tools track calories or steps, but people need help making holistic lifestyle changes,” says Changdae Chi, CEO of Livelively USA. “By combining generative AI insights with Eastern wellness philosophy, our platform encourages habits that support sustainable vitality—not just weight reduction.”

Key Elements

Protein-First Vision AI:
Analyzes meal composition to ensure adequate protein intake, critical for preventing muscle loss.

Daily Rhythm Guidance:
The platform offers Metabolic Recovery Protocols inspired by Asian Longevity Medicine, emphasizing circadian alignment and muscle resilience.

AI-Driven Insight Prompts:
Predictive patterns within user-reported data help surface gentle reminders around movement, hydration, rest, and nutrition—behaviors associated with overall metabolic health.

Early User Engagement Indicators
In an initial pilot program involving high-performance professionals in Silicon Valley—who often face irregular lifestyle patterns and metabolic stress—participants demonstrated strong engagement with the platform’s daily routines and nutritional guidance.

Preliminary indicators suggested:

• High ongoing participation rates relative to typical digital wellness tools
• Positive user-reported experience with strength-supportive behaviors

These early results reflect user engagement—not clinical outcomes—and will inform future research.

Headquartered at One Penn Plaza (Penn 1) in New York, Livelively USA is participating in Plug and Play Tech Center’s GOAL accelerator program. The company is developing partnerships with metabolic clinics and healthcare organizations to further evaluate how lifestyle support may enhance the user experience during GLP-1 treatment.

About Livelively USA Inc. Founded in 2024, Livelively USA is a healthtech innovator fusing South Korea’s advanced IT infrastructure with the time-honored wisdom of Eastern Longevity Medicine. The company provides accessible, human-centric digital therapeutics for the global obesity and diabetes market.

• “We find ourselves at an inflection point – It’s time to leap towards bold new innovations.”

SEOUL, South Korea, Dec. 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — LG Corp. Chairman and CEO Kwang Mo Koo delivered his annual New Year’s greetings via video email to LG employees worldwide on the 22nd.

LG has been delivering the New Year’s address at the end of the year, not the beginning, since the 2022 New Year’s address, so that members can calmly conclude the year and prepare for the new one.

LG employees viewed the New Year’s message through an email titled Kwang Mo Koo)>.

Beginning his New Year’s address, Chairman Koo said, “It’s been a year of meaningful endeavors for change, guided by our unwavering commitment to our customers.

I would like to thank each and every one of you.”

• “We Find Ourselves at an Inflection Point Where a New Future Is Unfolding … It’s Time to Leap Towards Bold New Innovations”

Chairman Koo emphasized that LG is at an inflection point and it’s time to leap towards bold new innovations that go beyond the existing strategies for success.

Koo observed, “We are envisioning a future that only LG can create, turning that vision into reality, and moving forward, one step at a time. Yet even as we press ahead, the world around us is changing faster than ever … The rules of technology and competition are changing, and our customers’ expectations are higher than ever.” He added: “It’s time to leap towards bold new innovations.”

He continued, “Our innovation must go beyond improving today’s way of living. It should be about creating essential values for our future customers. To achieve this, we must hone the way we think and work. Let’s begin by prioritizing and focusing.” 

“First, we must find one core value that resonates strongly with our customers. It takes courage to let go of ten ordinary strengths and choose one core value that really matters – but that’s how we set clear directions for our innovation and pull together.”

“Once identified, let that be the uncompromising goal we push ourselves toward – to a level that others consider impossible. Such relentless focus will create an experience our customers will find ‘truly different’ and deliver exceptional value that raises the bar.”

Chairman Koo emphasized, “Today we find ourselves at an inflection point where a new future is unfolding. Shaping that future is both our responsibility and opportunity. So let’s prioritize what will bring smiles to our customers ten years from now,

and focus our actions today to make them a reality. I believe that’s the kind of innovation LG does best.”

• Global Experts Shared Their Perspectives on Shifts in Technology Paradigm, Competition, Customers, and Organizations.

The New Year’s address also included comments from three external experts who observed shifts in technology paradigm, competition, customers and organizations.

George Westerman, a Senior Lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management, said, “Technologies like generative AI can be considered a general-purpose technology innovation. And when these technologies happen, it’s not possible to predict the level of change, but it is possible to predict that the change will be very, very large. If you think about what electricity did to society, if you think about what the internet did to society, we can expect that kind of change happening in work and in life over time.”

Competition>
Sunil Gupta, a Professor at Harvard Business School, said, “Every company, whether it’s a startup, a tech giant or a large established company, they’re beginning to realize that the foundationals of their business strategy are evolving and changing. And as a result, whether you have large capital or resources, the traditional approaches or the old approaches are no longer working and the time frame for them is getting shorter and shorter. So you have to think about breakthrough ways and new approaches to survive and thrive in this new world.”

Miyoung Jeon, CEO of Trend Korea Company, explained, “Consumers now expect far higher standards of experience. They’re no longer comparing just price or quality – they’re looking for products that offer real value and meaning. Which is why now a brand can survive only if it can justify its prices through distinctive, compelling customer experiences.”

George Westerman said, “This is a challenge when we have a radical change like AI is going to introduce. Because the large, successful organizations need to learn to change faster. Your competitors will be changing faster. Your customer expectations will be changing faster. Your investor demands will be changing faster. And large organizations need to develop that capability to change faster than you do now.”

• Beginning with the 2019 New Year’s address that emphasized ‘Customer’ as LG’s core direction, the message of customer value management has been consistently developed and refined in subsequent New Year’s addresses.

Since his 2019 New Year’s message, where he placed an emphasis on “prioritizing customers as a future direction of LG,” Chairman Koo has consistently refined his message of customer value management through annual addresses.

In 2019, he defined three unique customer values for LG: “transforming customer’s lives with satisfaction,” “being ahead of others,” and “continuously creating value.” In 2020, he called for a focus on identifying customer pain points as the starting point for realizing customer value. In 2021, he emphasized the importance of deeply understanding and empathizing with customers through micro-segmentation. In 2022, he proposed creating valuable experiences that customers would not want to live without.

In 2023, he asked each member to search for customer value they could create, inspiring employees to take the lead in value creation and prioritizing customer satisfaction. In 2024, he urged staff to commit themselves to creating distinguished customer value to position LG as the market-leading customer experience innovator. In 2025, he stressed providing essential and expectation-exceeding values to future customers with LG’s ‘DNA of challenge and change’ that has continued since its founding day.

About LG

Founded in 1947, LG is a technology innovator and global leader in consumer electronics, automotive components, ESS, and organic light-emitting displays (OLEDs). LG Corporation (LG Corp.) is the holding company for industry-leading LG subsidiaries, such as LG Electronics, LG Display, LG Energy Solution, and LG Chem, to name a few. For more information about the LG group of companies, visit lgcorp.com 

EL MONTE, Calif., Dec. 22, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — NAVEE, a leading innovator in smart mobility, will debut at CES® 2026, to be held from January 6 to 9 in Las Vegas, where it will unveil its latest smart mobility solutions designed to address a wide range of riding and usage scenarios, from high-performance applications to everyday urban commuting.

NAVEE will exhibit at the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC), North Hall — Booth #10548, and host a Brand Journey & Product Launch Event on January 7, 2026, from 13:30 to 16:00.

The showcase will feature a new product lineup, including an electric scooter concept inspired by supercar design, GPS-enabled golf push carts with AI-based visual obstacle detection, and off-road dirt bikes, and more, highlighting NAVEE’s expanding capabilities in intelligent mobility technology.

Beyond the product lineup itself, NAVEE’s CES presence highlights a system-level approach to performance, demonstrating how automotive-grade design philosophy and engineering principles extend across different mobility categories. Through immersive displays and on-site demonstrations, visitors will gain insight into the brand’s development mindset and future product direction.

In 2025, NAVEE achieved strong global growth with its flagship electric scooter, the ST3 Pro, which has received positive recognition from media reviewers. The ST3 Pro is also the first electric scooter to adopt automotive-grade suspension materials, reflecting NAVEE’s focus on ride comfort and durability.

Today, NAVEE operates in more than 60 countries and regions, spanning North America, the European Union, the Middle East, and beyond.

“CES 2026 marks an important step for NAVEE as we present our expanding mobility portfolio on a global stage,” said Mr. Lu, CEO of NAVEE. “Guided by our mission to navigate the infinite possibilities of future mobility, we focus on applying intelligent, automotive-grade engineering and design thinking to build reliable, forward-looking mobility technologies.”

NAVEE plans to share additional information and on-site updates during CES 2026, including highlights from its January 7 launch event.

About NAVEE

NAVEE is a global smart mobility brand focused on system-level engineering and intelligent technology integration. Leveraging automotive-grade design, advanced suspension systems, and AI-enabled control technologies, NAVEE develops high-performance mobility products designed to support more sustainable and adaptable urban transportation worldwide. Learn more about NAVEE and its vision for next-generation smart mobility at https://naveetech.com/.