Water Tower Research Highlights Mirle Partnership Fueling Ainos' Robotics Scale-Up and SmellTech Expansion
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Ainos (NASDAQ:AIMD) announced a strategic partnership with Mirle to integrate its AI Nose SmellTech into Mirle's mobile and quadruped robotic platforms, extending deployments from commercial buildings into industrial environments such as semiconductor fabs and advanced manufacturing.
The collaboration aims to add chemical sensing to vision and audio, improve early detection of gas leaks and VOCs, and accelerate real-world data collection to scale the Smell ID library and platform capabilities.
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AIMD fell 5.56% with low volume while several peers like INBS, ALUR, NVNO, and NXL showed declines in price context, yet the momentum scanner only flagged NXL moving 19.58% up and without news, indicating AIMD’s move appears more stock-specific than sector-driven.
Previous Partnership Reports
| Date | Event | Sentiment | Move | Catalyst |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 10 | Partnership recap | Positive | -1.6% | Water Tower Research highlighted multiple high-impact industrial SmellTech partnerships. |
| Jul 07 | Asia distribution deal | Positive | +0.3% | Five-year Solomon distribution partnership to expand AI Nose across Asia’s industries. |
| Dec 04 | Drug partnership | Positive | +0.1% | Strategic partnership with Taiwan Tanabe Seiyaku for VELDONA manufacturing and marketing. |
| Dec 02 | Sjogren’s MOU | Positive | -8.3% | MOU with Taiwan Tanabe Seiyaku to advance VELDONA in Taiwan’s Sjögren’s market. |
Partnership headlines have produced mixed reactions, with roughly equal instances of positive and negative next-day moves despite generally constructive strategic messaging.
Recent history shows Ainos using partnerships to extend its SmellTech platform across pharmaceuticals and industrial AI. In Dec 2024, collaborations with Taiwan Tanabe Seiyaku focused on VELDONA® and Sjögren’s syndrome. By Jul 2025, Water Tower Research highlighted multiple industrial partners like ASE, Kenmec, and Solomon. These partnership-tagged events carried an average -2.37% move, suggesting today’s robotics-focused Mirle update fits a recurring, but market-volatile, collaboration narrative.
Historical Comparison
Partnership-tagged news for AIMD over the past year averaged a -2.37% move, with both industrial and pharma collaborations. Today’s Mirle-focused update continues that pattern of strategically positive but market-choppy partnership reactions.
Partnerships progressed from pharma-focused VELDONA deals in late 2024 to large-scale industrial SmellTech rollouts with ASE, Kenmec, Solomon, and now Mirle, broadening Ainos’ platform from therapeutics into manufacturing and robotics.
Market Pulse Summary
This announcement centers on Water Tower Research’s coverage of Ainos’ Mirle partnership, emphasizing AI Nose integration into industrial and security robotics. It builds on a series of collaborations extending SmellTech from pharmaceuticals into advanced manufacturing. Investors may track how deployments in semiconductor fabs and safety monitoring enhance the Smell ID data flywheel, and how this compares with earlier agreements highlighted in 2024–2025 partnership reports.
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AI Nose integration positions robotics application as a scalable growth engine
Mirle partnership expands SmellTech robotics into industrial environments
HOUSTON, TEXAS / ACCESS Newswire / February 5, 2026 / Ainos, Inc. (NASDAQ:AIMD)(NASDAQ:AIMDW) ("Ainos" or the "Company"), a SmellTech platform company digitizing scent as a native data language for artificial intelligence, today announced that Water Tower Research ("WTR") has published a report highlighting Ainos' expanding robotics opportunity and its strategy to scale the AI Nose platform across industrial and robotic applications, following the partnership with Mirle Automation Corporation ("Mirle").
Key Highlights from the Report:
Mirle Partnership Broadens AI Nose Robotics Applications: The partnership with Taiwan-based Mirle extends Ainos' robotics presence from commercial buildings and public infrastructures into industrial environments, which aligns with Ainos' other industrial programs. Mirle is a leading intelligent factory automation and robotics provider with more than 36 years of experience and deep exposure to semiconductor manufacturing and logistics automation. The company is scaling AI robotics platforms, including humanoid and quadruped systems, leveraging NVIDIA Omniverse for digital twin simulation and supported by a dedicated component supply chain.
Robot Integration Expands AI Nose Access to Industrial and Security Environments: Integrating AI Nose into Mirle's mobile and quadruped robotic platforms enables deployment in demanding environments such as semiconductor fabs, advanced manufacturing facilities, community safety patrols, and border security. These settings require continuous monitoring and early detection of gas leaks, chemical anomalies, and volatile organic compounds ("VOCs") that vision or audio-based systems cannot identify.
Scent Intelligence Adds a New Dimension to Robotic Awareness: AI Nose adds scent intelligence as a complementary sensing capability alongside Mirle's existing vision and audio, enabling robots to interpret chemical signals in real time. This additional perception dimension supports new use cases in safety monitoring, inspection, and autonomous operations across complex physical environments.
Robotics Deployments Strengthen the Data Flywheel and Platform Scalability: As Ainos progresses from pilot programs toward broader deployment, embedding scent as a native data language directly into robotic hardware expands real-world data collection. Growing robotic adoption is expected to strengthen the Smell ID library, reinforce the data flywheel, and support scalable platform execution across industrial ecosystems.
"As robotics evolves toward greater autonomy, it becomes a natural extension of our AI Nose in complex industrial environments," said Eddy Tsai, Chairman, President, and CEO of Ainos, Inc. "Partnering with Mirle allows us to integrate scent intelligence directly into advanced robotic systems, expanding how AI interprets real-world signals and broadening the reach of our SmellTech across industrial applications."
Read the Full Water Tower Research Report Here: https://www.watertowerresearch.com/doc?docID=UR_AIMD_02032026
About AI Nose
AI Nose digitizes scent into Smell ID, an AI-driven form of scent intelligence. The full-stack electronic nose platform integrates high-precision MEMS sensor arrays with proprietary AI algorithms designed to support ppb-level scent detection sensitivity, subject to application conditions and deployment configurations. Smell ID converts analog scent signals into structured, actionable data, while the proprietary Smell Language Model (SLM) is designed to learn, classify, and contextualize complex scent patterns over time.
Built upon more than a decade of accumulated scent data and deep medtech expertise, AI Nose is designed to support continuous monitoring, predictive analysis, and real-time alerts across industrial and manufacturing environments. AI Nose is offered under a SmellTech-as-a-Service architecture, intended to support ongoing access to scent intelligence, analytics, and AI-driven insights through subscription-based deployment models.
About Ainos, Inc.
Ainos, Inc. (NASDAQ:AIMD) is a dual-platform AI and biotech company pioneering smelltech and immune therapeutics. Its AI Nose platform and smell language model (SLM) digitize scent into Smell ID, a machine-readable data format, powering intelligent sensing across robotics, smart factories, and healthcare. The company also develops VELDONA®, a low-dose oral interferon targeting rare, autoimmune, and infectious diseases. Ainos, a fusion of "AI" and "Nose," is redefining machine perception for the sensory age. To learn more, visit https://www.ainos.com. Follow Ainos on X, formerly known as Twitter, (@AinosInc) and LinkedIn to stay up-to-date.
Forward-Looking Statements
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Contact Information
Feifei Shen
ir@ainos.com
SOURCE: Ainos, Inc.
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