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PACK EXPO International 2026 Opens With Four Days of Packaging Automation Showcases
North America's largest packaging and processing trade show returns to Chicago with more than 2,600 exhibitors, 150 free sessions, and a buyer agenda built around robotics, AI, and workforce automation.
Mainstay Communications Team · · 3 min read
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PMMI's 2026 State of the Industry Puts U.S. Packaging Machinery at $11.7 Billion
Flexibility, labor pressure, and early AI adoption are reshaping equipment decisions across U.S. and Canadian packaging machinery markets, according to the industry's annual benchmark report.
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Enterprise
JLS Automation to Unveil VISION AI Pile-Picking System at PACK EXPO International 2026
The York, Pennsylvania robotics builder will run its AI-guided pile-picking system live at McCormick Place in Chicago this October, letting packaging engineers watch the technology work on real product variability.
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Guides
3D Product Videos for Industrial Manufacturers
How industrial manufacturers turn CAD into product video, interactive 3D, and Web AR that keeps selling after the booth comes down, on one published subscription.
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Platforms
Intrinsic Open-Sources the Robotics Stack It Uses in Real Factories, Under Apache 2.0
Alphabet's robotics unit released Intrinsic Core at ROSCon 2026 in Toronto, giving any developer free commercial access to the same control, motion planning, vision, and simulation software it deploys in working manufacturing cells.
· 3 min read
Deals
AMD to Acquire World Labs for $8.2 Billion, Betting Spatial Intelligence Is Core AI Infrastructure
AMD's agreement to buy Fei-Fei Li's spatial intelligence lab brings a research team building interactive 3D world models inside one of the companies supplying the chips to run them.
Enterprise
Rockwell Automation Joins Anthropic's Project Glasswing, Putting Claude Mythos 5 to Work on Industrial Cyber Defense
Rockwell's product-security team gets controlled access to Anthropic's Claude Mythos 5 to find and fix vulnerabilities faster across the software and connected systems that manufacturers run every day.
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