Natick, Mass. – September 22, 2026 -- Cognex Corporation (NASDAQ: CGNX) has agreed to acquire RealSense, the market leader in depth-sensing cameras for robotic perception and Physical AI, for approximately $500 million in cash, the company announced. The deal, financed entirely from Cognex's existing cash and investments, is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2026 subject to customary conditions.

San Jose, Calif. – September 22, 2026 -- Echola Systems has introduced two optical test switches, the OPX4D-SM and OPX8D-SM, designed to cut equipment costs for engineers validating AI data center GPU cluster networks running at 800G and 1.6T speeds.

Guangzhou – September 22, 2026 -- The 140th China Import and Export Fair, known as the Canton Fair, will run from October 15 to November 4, 2026, with more than 220,000 overseas buyers from 197 countries and regions already pre-registered, nearly 80% of them professional buyers.

Stockholm – September 22, 2026 -- Essity will publish its interim report for the third quarter of 2026 on October 22 at approximately 07:00 CET, the hygiene and health company confirmed.

CEO and CFO to host live webcast at 09:00 CET

President and CEO Ulrika Kolsrud, together with EVP and CFO Fredrik Rystedt, will present the results via a live webcast and teleconference at 09:00 CET the same day. The session will remain available for on-demand viewing after the live broadcast concludes.

Gothenburg, Sweden – September 22, 2026 -- Volvo Cars has become the lead industry partner for Horizon, an open-source software development platform built by Accenture and Google Cloud to speed up car software engineering for Android Automotive Operating System (AAOS).

Suzhou – September 22, 2026 -- Boomray Pharmaceuticals Co., Ltd. has signed an exclusive global license agreement with Novartis Pharma AG for an undisclosed preclinical radioligand therapy (RLT) asset, with total deal value reaching up to USD 900 million.

Boston – September 22, 2026 -- Women in perimenopause or menopause represent an estimated $350 billion in unmet demand within the global longevity market, according to a new Boston Consulting Group (BCG) study covering roughly 1 billion women worldwide already spending on longevity products and services.

Beijing – September 22, 2026 -- China's AI-powered meteorological early-warning system "MAZU" has been deployed for cloud-based trials in more than 40 countries, including Pakistan, Ethiopia, the Solomon Islands, Jordan, Sri Lanka, Mongolia and Djibouti, since its 2025 launch.

New York – – September 22, 2026 -- Aliko Dangote, President and CEO of Dangote Group, told more than 3,000 African and global business leaders and heads of state that Africa must stop exporting its capital to foreign banks and markets if it wants to replicate Asia's industrial rise. His remarks came at Unstoppable Africa 2026, a two-day forum in New York organized around the theme of continental industrialization and investment.

Hangzhou, China – September 21, 2026 -- A joint survey by asmag.com and Hikvision found that 38.2% of video security professionals call storage cost or capacity a "major challenge," while another 43.2% rate it "moderate," together accounting for 81.4% of respondents.