Ainos Announces That Ugo Its First Robotic Partner, Will Pilot-Deploy The World's First Service Robots Equipped With A Sense Of Smell Powered By AI Nose At Seven Sites Across Japan.
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Ainos, Inc. (NASDAQ:AIMD)(NASDAQ:AIMDW) ("Ainos" or the "Company"), a leader in AI-driven scent digitization, today announced that ugo, Inc. ("ugo"), its first robotic partner, will pilot-deploy the world's first service robots equipped with a sense of smell powered by AI Nose at seven sites across Japan.
These robots, now empowered with a new sensory modality, will operate in pharmaceutical manufacturing, facility management, energy operations, power substations, and water treatment plants, at sites operated by leading Japanese corporations. This marks a historic milestone in robotic perception, blending olfactory sensing with industrial AI.
"This is a big step forward in the age of sensory AI," said Eddy Tsai, Chairman, President, and CEO of Ainos. "By giving robots the sense of smell, we are redefining how machines perceive and respond to the world. The pilot program is a great start to our 90-day roadmap. It positions us for large-scale rollout and SmellTech-as-a-Service commercialization in 2026."
As a leading service robot company in Japan, ugo's robots are already deployed in airports, data centers, factories, and corporate campuses across Japan. ugo robots with AI Nose will enable intelligent facility inspection, predictive maintenance, and environmental alerts, leveraging Ainos' proprietary smell language model (SLM) and Smell ID data insights.
"We are very honored. This is a major validation of our SmellTech model and represents strong interest from leading Japanese corporates across pharmaceuticals, energy, smart infrastructure, and utilities, each representing a high-value industrial vertical," said Mr. Eddy Tsai. "To be trusted by leading Japanese enterprises for this pilot program is a testament to the reliability and value of AI Nose. Investors should see this as a sign of strong progress, long-term scalability, and the credibility of our execution."