CHICAGO, Sept. 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Universal Robots (UR), the world’s leading collaborative robot (cobot) company, today introduced a new addition to its portfolio, the UR8 Long, at FABTECH in Chicago. The long-reach industrial collaborative robot is available for order now, with shipping to begin in October.

With a 1750 mm (68.9 in ) reach and slim profile, UR8 Long combines reach, stability and precision in a rugged, compact, lightweight form, featuring an 8 kg (17.6 lbs) payload. This makes it ideal for space-constrained setups and industrial tasks, from complex weldments to precision dunnage picking and flexible multi-point inspections.

“The UR8 Long can reach farther and do more than ever before. It’s designed to help people and businesses work faster, more safely, and with less physical effort,” said Jean Pierre Hathout, President of Universal Robots. “Whether it’s lifting, moving, or handling tasks that are repetitive or hard on the body, this robot makes the job easier. Its longer reach means it can cover more space, and its advanced features open new ways to automate work that used to be done by hand.”

UR8 Long runs with both PolyScope 5 and PolyScope X, UR’s industry-leading software platform, and can be extended with MotionPlus – UR’s new advanced motion control technology that allows for ease of integration with linear axis, rotary positioners and rotary turntables for precise control, smoother trajectories, and consistent accuracy.

Combined with UR’s upgraded freedrive capabilities, users can manually guide the arm with precision and ease – making lead-to-teach programming more intuitive and enabling quick, ergonomic setup even on complex parts, all without the need for layered interfaces or external tools. UR8 Long’s lighter mass – 30% less than the UR20 – and compact wrist design also makes it perfect for mounting on gantries, rails, or overhead systems.

Ideal for welding
With its long reach, advanced motion control and stellar precision and repeatability, UR8 Long is ideal for welding. “UR8 Long delivers an easier teaching experience than traditional welding robots, better weld quality than manual welding, and less overall rework, saving time and money,” said Will Healy III, Global Industry Manager for Fabricated Metals at Teradyne Robotics. “The UR8 Long was designed with the collaborative welding process in mind, boosting productivity and helping leaders to attract new talent who are often more motivated to operate a robot than perform repetitive manual welding.”

Perfect for bin picking
The longer reach combined with the new robot’s compact tool flange and fast wrist joints, allow more pick positions and for the robot to reach deep into bin corners with ease. All features in high demand in industries such as automotive, where the UR8 Long will integrate seamlessly into space-constrained cells and offer more picks per bin and more uninterrupted workflows. The improved joint architecture delivers up to 30% faster cycle times compared to earlier generations of cobots.

UR8 Long’s European debut will happen on September 15 at SCHWEISSEN & SCHNEIDEN in Essen, Germany.

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About Universal Robots  
Universal Robots is a global leader in collaborative robotics (cobots), used across a wide range of industries. Our mission is simple: Automation for anyone. Anywhere. With over 100,000 cobots sold worldwide, our user-friendly platform is supported by intuitive PolyScope software, award-winning training, comprehensive services, and the world’s largest cobot ecosystem, delivering innovation and choice to our customers.

Universal Robots is part of Teradyne Robotics, a division of Teradyne (NASDAQ: TER), a leading supplier of automatic test equipment and advanced robotics technology. For more information, please visit www.universal-robots.com.

Official Declaration and Cultural Programs at the Colombia Pavilion.

OSAKA, Japan, Sept. 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — The Colombia Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, was honoured to host a special visit by the President of the Republic of Colombia, Mr. Gustavo Petro, on September 5^th and 6^th, 2025.

President of Colombia, Gustavo Petro, and Carmen Caballero, President of ProColombia, the promotion agency of the country.

During his visit, President Gustavo Petro engaged with members of the press, delivering an official statement about his time in Japan, and participated in a special naming ceremony to select one of the oak trees in front of the Pavilion in the “Forest of Civilizations.” The ceremony celebrated Colombia’s legacy and its contributions to the global community.

These momentous occasions have provided a unique opportunity for media representatives to witness and document President Petro’s reflections on Colombia’s key role in fostering international collaboration:

 “For Colombia, this occasion marks the beginning of a new, universal chapter; like adding one more page to Gabriel García Márquez’s masterpiece, One Hundred Years of Solitude”- which serves as inspiration of the theme of Colombia Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka.

“Márquez’s work is often described as magical realism, a beauty that feels like a fantasy. In Japan, as well as in Colombia, there are countless landscapes of striking splendor. Every day and every moment allow us to experience extraordinary beauty. Welcome to the world of magical realism,” he continued.

The President has also used this opportunity to enhance trade relations and attract new investments from Japan.

On September 6^th, the Colombia Pavilion unveiled a cultural exhibition, in partnership with SENA, featuring artistic performances, cultural displays, and interactive spaces where Expo visitors could engage with indigenous Colombian communities.

SENA is a Colombian public institution dedicated to providing free vocational, technical, technological, and complementary training programs to enhance the skills of Colombia’s labor force and boost the nation’s competitiveness.

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KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Sept. 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — On September 5, 2025, the Henan Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism introduced its “Journey of Civilization Light” online exhibition at MATTA FAIR 2025 in Malaysia to expand its cultural and tourism presence across Southeast Asia.

As one of the region’s largest and most influential international travel exhibitions, MATTA FAIR drew a broad cross-section of industry professionals and visitors from around the world. The online exhibition used interactive digital tools to present Henan’s role as a cradle of Chinese heritage, together with its historical artifacts and natural landscapes. Through the immersive “cloud tour,” the platform provides Malaysian audiences with convenient virtual access to Henan’s cultural assets. On-site interactive booths saw strong participation, increasing awareness and interest in the “Hometown Henan” brand throughout Malaysia and neighboring markets.

This promotional campaign introduced “Henan, Where China Began”, an initiative highlighting Henan as the birthplace of Chinese civilization, in the Malaysian market, further encouraged interest in Henan’s cultural tourism offerings among Southeast Asian travelers. The digital platform is emerging as an important mechanism for supporting sustainable inbound visitation and strengthening cultural exchange between China and Malaysia.

– Agoda reports rising interest in Busan from domestic and international travelers alike during the upcoming Busan International Film Festival and the Busan International Rock Festival

SEOUL, South Korea, Sept. 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Busan, South Korea’s most well-known seaside metropolis, is also emerging as one of Asia’s pre-eminent cultural hubs thanks to its diverse art and culture festivals, including the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) taking place 17-26 September 2025 and the Busan International Rock Festival taking place 26-28 September 2025. According to digital travel platform Agoda, accommodation searches by South Korean travelers for Busan around both events increased by 6% and 42%, respectively, for check-ins starting two days prior to each festival.

Busan has consistently positioned itself as a premier ‘culture-cation’ destination by hosting world-class festivals and events, while actively supporting the creative industries. Marking its 30th anniversary this year, BIFF, the first international film festival in South Korea, continues to serve as a gateway for promoting South Korean and Asian cinema globally by discovering and nurturing diverse films and talented filmmakers.

The Busan International Rock Festival further contributes to the city’s cultural landscape with its ‘Rookies on the BU-ROCK’ competition, a program organized in partnership with Busan City to discover and foster emerging artists. The winning team receives a prize as well as opportunities to perform at the Busan International Rock Festival and participate in overseas festivals.

These flagship festivals are attracting not only South Korean travelers and fans but also rising interest from international visitors captivated by K-culture. Accommodation searches for Busan from international travelers rose by 31% ahead of the festivals, with particularly strong demand from Vietnam, Japan, Philippines, Taiwan, and Thailand. Notably, Vietnam emerged as the top overseas market searching for Busan during the periods leading up to both BIFF and the Busan International Rock Festival.

Jay Lee, Country Director, South Korea at Agoda, said, “Today, Busan is no longer just a seaside tourism city known for its beautiful beaches and trendy, scenic attractions. It is increasingly establishing itself as a cultural and artistic hub by hosting a wide range of events spanning music, film, and even gaming. With Agoda’s diverse selection of accommodation and flight options, you can plan your own ‘culture-cation’ and experience Busan’s vibrant festivals firsthand.”

For travelers seeking to immerse themselves in cultural destinations such as Busan, Agoda offers over 6 million holiday properties, more than 130,000 flight routes, and over 300,000 activities, all of which can be combined in a single booking. Visit the website at www.Agoda.com or download the mobile app for the best deals.

DUBAI, UAE, Sept. 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Bybit, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange by trading volume, is excited to celebrate the first anniversary of bbSOL, marking a significant milestone for the world’s first exchange-backed liquid staking token (LST) on the Solana blockchain and its remarkable growth within the ecosystem. Rewarding the bbSOL community, an exclusive multi-tiered rewards extravaganza across Bybit and Byreal starts today.

The month-long campaign, starting now until October 5, 2025, features over 200,000 USDT in prizes and celebrates bbSOL’s achievement of reaching $400 million in total value locked (TVL) with 2 million SOL staked. With over 80,000 holders—and counting, bbSOL has become the gateway to the Bybit and Solana ecosystems with over 10 DeFi and CeFi integrations, securing its position among the top 10 projects on Solana.

From the Bybit Puzzle Hunt to a Byreal incentive pool, participants can engage with bbSOL’s unique features while competing for substantial prizes.

Highlights

• Bybit Puzzle Hunt – Users can grab a share of the 200,000 USDT prize pool by completing simple tasks to collect puzzle pieces
• bbSOL, memeified – From now until September 12, 2025, social media users can tag @Bybit_Web3 and @byreal_io with the magic hashtag #bbSOL1Year to submit their own meme; the top 10 contestants will earn airdrop rewards valued at $50
• Byreal exclusive: bbSOL Incentive Pool – at least 2 bbSOL are distributed daily across liquidity providers, as a limited-time reward

Launched in September 2024, bbSOL represents a breakthrough in liquid staking on Solana, allowing SOL holders to earn staking rewards while maintaining full trading flexibility. The token consistently trades at a premium to SOL, underlining its enhanced utility and value proposition within the Solana ecosystem.

Designed for versatility, bbSOL’s innovative approach eliminates the traditional trade-off between earning staking rewards and maintaining liquidity, offering holders the best of both worlds. Its exceptional growth trajectory, validating market demand for sophisticated exchange-backed liquid staking solutions.

In addition to access to Solana’s expanding DeFi landscape, bbSOL holders benefit from seamless integration across Bybit’s Unified Trading Account (UTA), enabling spot, futures, options, lending, and earn activities without requiring token sales. Byreal users can also swap SOL for bbSOL within seconds.

Terms and conditions apply. To learn more, users main visit:  Celebrating the 1st Birthday of bbSOL – Discover All Perks

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• World premieres of all-new Middle East variants of AITO 9, AITO 7, and AITO 5 at IAA MOBILITY 2025 jointly interpret ‘new luxury’ for the intelligent vehicle era
• AITO is becoming a glocal company
• AITO’s long-term globalization strategy focuses on the high-end new energy vehicle segment, covering both pure electric and range-extender technology paths 
• Launch of latest generation SERES Super Range-Extender System empowers a quiet and imperceptible ‘new luxury’ mobility experience for global users

MUNICH, Sept. 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — AITO, the high-end intelligent electric vehicle brand under SERES Group, is making a striking debut at IAA MOBILITY 2025 in Munich with its competitive global product lineup. The all-new Middle East variants of the AITO 9, AITO 7, and AITO 5 are making their world premieres on the brand’s newly upgraded premium stand. These models underscore how AITO is continuing to push the boundaries of new energy intelligent vehicles and is delivering an unparalleled ‘new luxury’ smart mobility experience to customers around the world. AITO’s presence at the auto show reflects its ‘Intelligence Redefining Luxury’ philosophy and showcases its cutting-edge technological innovations and strategic global vision.

Leon He, President of SERES AUTO said: “AITO is committed to becoming a glocal brand. Today, at IAA MOBILITY 2025, AITO is unveiling our truly globalized product lineup and setting a new strategic milestone in our globalization journey. This journey to define ‘new luxury’ in the intelligent era is backed by our cutting-edge technology, and remarkable success in China.”

From the AITO brand’s establishment in December 2021 to the end of August this year, the cumulative sales of its four models in China have exceeded 770,000 units. Among them, the all-scenario intelligent flagship SUV AITO 9 which launched at the end of 2023, has sold more than 230,000 units, and has been the sales champion of the ¥500,000-level luxury car segment in China for 17 consecutive months.

The global AITO models will be first available in the Middle East market in a diverse range of vehicle variants designed to meet the varied mobility needs of discerning local customers with region-specific product features.

The Middle East variants will feature a smart cockpit with trilingual interaction (Chinese, English, Arabic) and integration into the local digital ecosystem. Their fully enhanced hardware performance is tailored to the unique natural environment in the Middle East. These models have undergone rigorous testing in extreme conditions like deserts to ensure full compliance and alignment with local driving conditions. All three new models have obtained UAE market entry certification and are set to hit the market soon.

Meanwhile, AITO is completing validation tests of its overseas intelligent driving assistance features to bring an excellent and secure intelligent mobility experience for Middle East users. AITO’s intelligent driving assistance technology has gained widespread recognition in the Chinese market. By the end of August 2025, AITO users’ total intelligent assisted driving distance exceeded 3.45 billion km, serving 621,000 users in China.

As part of its global strategic blueprint, AITO will establish a UAE subsidiary to gradually launch its full model lineup. This will be supported by a tailored local service ecosystem for closer customer engagement. Leveraging its Dubai-based central warehouse, AITO will also develop a localized supply chain that will enable impressive weekly-order delivery speeds and instant after-sales parts support, ensuring a seamless user experience. Through in-depth regional customization, AITO will truly become a glocal company.

AITO is showcasing many of its core technologies alongside its global models at IAA MOBILITY 2025. Among them, the SERES 5th-Gen Super Range-Extender System is making its overseas debut. Based on the ‘Saiyi C2E Range-Extender Integration Design’ and ‘RoboREX Intelligent Control Technology’, this system delivers high power and high efficiency in a small, lightweight design with quiet operation. The AITO MF Platform is the first and currently the only platform in the industry compatible with three new energy power modes: super range-extended electric, battery electric, and ultra hybrid.

Explore AITO’s vision of ‘new luxury’ in intelligent mobility at Stand D40 in Hall B3 at the Munich Exhibition Center from 8 to 12 September 2025.

MELBOURNE, Sept. 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Leidos has commenced the Australian build of Sea Archer, a next-generation small uncrewed surface vessel (USV). This marks a major step forward in bringing Leidos’ proven autonomous technology and maritime systems portfolio to the Indo-Pacific region while supporting AUKUS objectives and the Australian Defence Force’s mission needs.

The move into local manufacturing of autonomous vessels fast-tracks proven U.S. capability to Australia, harnessing Leidos’ 50-year heritage with the U.S. Navy and its record of more than 120,000 fully autonomous nautical miles at sea.

At the heart of Sea Archer is Leidos’ advanced autonomy platform, LAVA, which enables high-speed, long-range, and smart mission execution across diverse maritime environments. Seamlessly integrated with Leidos’ broader battle management technologies — including ADEPT and AlphaMosaic, which harness AI to support distributed, autonomous fleet operations — Sea Archer embodies the future of naval capability: intelligent, adaptable and affordable.

Built for speed, endurance and multi-mission payloads, Sea Archer can reach sprint speeds up to 40 knots and has a range of 1,500 nautical miles. With a flexible payload bay capacity of more than 900kg, Sea Archer can support a wide range of mission options, including strike, logistics resupply, ISR (intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance), and electromagnetic deception operations.

The Australian production of Sea Archer will use local capability across the supply chain — from build to payload integration, autonomy software design and ship maintenance — supporting a robust sovereign ecosystem, rapid production and sustainment. NSW Central Coast-based Oceans Rivers Lakes has been appointed to build the first aluminium vessel and construction is already underway.

Leidos Australia’s technical team will lead the integration of its autonomy software platform, which has already been successfully deployed across 12 different USV platforms.

Leidos Australia Chief Executive, Paul Chase said, “Given Australia’s vast northern approaches, platforms with coverage, endurance and agility are critical. The capability to monitor large areas, detect security threats, navigate hazardous environments and provide continuous uncrewed support enhances our nation’s security posture, especially in today’s geostrategic environment.”

“We’re aiming to deliver a rapid production capability, and because of its easy-to-build aluminium hull, can have Sea Archer built at multiple shipyards across Australia. This approach will allow us to quickly deliver flexible, adaptable and affordable maritime solutions, using our fleet or customer vessels, to support mission needs,” he added.

Along with Sea Archer, Leidos’ Sea Systems portfolio includes operationally proven medium USVs—Sea Hunter, Sea Hawk, Ranger and Mariner—as well as a range of undersea systems including Sea Castle, Sea Spector and Sea Dart, a high-performance, low-cost, flexible and adaptable uncrewed undersea vessel. Sea Archer is currently undergoing sea trials in the U.S. and is expected to be mission-ready by 2026.

Learn more about Leidos’ autonomous maritime systems here.

About AUKUS

AUKUS is a trilateral security partnership between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. It focuses on promoting a free and open Indo-Pacific region through defence cooperation, including the sharing of advanced military technologies. AUKUS has two main pillars: Pillar 1 involves Australia acquiring nuclear-powered submarines, while Pillar 2 focuses on collaborating on advanced technologies like maritime autonomy, artificial intelligence, cyber, and hypersonics.

About Leidos

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Leidos Australia is a trusted partner to the Australian Government, leveraging global experience and a network of partners to deliver solutions that support intelligence, defence, aviation, border protection, and health markets while protecting and improving the Australian way of life. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit www.leidos.com.

Certain statements in this announcement constitute “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the rules and regulations of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). These statements are based on management’s current beliefs and expectations and are subject to significant risks and uncertainties. These statements are not guarantees of future results or occurrences. A number of factors could cause our actual results, performance, achievements, or industry results to be different from the results, performance, or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. These factors include, but are not limited to, the “Risk Factors” set forth in Leidos’ Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025, and other such filings that Leidos makes with the SEC from time to time. Readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date hereof. Leidos does not undertake to update forward-looking statements to reflect the impact of circumstances or events that arise after the date the forward-looking statements were made.

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