Maxis Series Brings More Space, Support and Choice to Big & Tall Users
BERLIN, Sept. 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- LiberNovo is exhibiting at IFA 2026 from September 4 to 8 at Messe Berlin, presenting its dynamic ergonomic seating range at Hall 7, Stand 7.2a-105. The Maxis Series leads the stand, alongside the LiberNovo Omni Pro and LiberNovo Omni SE. LiberNovo Omni Pro has also earned nominations in two IFA Innovation Awards categories: Best in Design and Best in Tech for Good & Accessibility.
Founded in 1924, IFA is a leading global event for consumer technology and home appliances, connecting brands, retailers, buyers, media and creators. Product launches, demonstrations and industry meetings help shape technology conversations beyond Berlin. The 2026 theme, "The future is now," highlights AI, smart home, health technology and connected living. As hybrid work, gaming and content creation extend sitting time, LiberNovo is presenting ergonomic seating as an active support system rather than a static object.
Maxis Series: Built for Bigger Builds
Maxis was designed for taller, broader and heavier users rather than scaled up from a standard model. Its 52 cm (20.5-inch) seat depth and wider cushion provide more room to shift and greater thigh support. Multi-density foam is firmer toward the back to support the sitting bones and softer toward the front to reduce pressure on the thighs. A reinforced frame, aluminum-alloy base and four-direction armrests create a stable platform for long work, gaming and creative sessions.
All three versions offer five-stage recline from 105° to 160°, with progressive springs helping the chair hold steady support through each position. Maxis Manual uses a knob to set lumbar depth. Maxis Electric adds motorized lumbar support and OmniStretch, a button-activated guided back stretch. Maxis Airflow adds Active Airflow seat ventilation for extended sessions in warmer environments.
"Most big and tall chairs are a standard chair with the dimensions turned up. That gets you more surface and the same problem," said Yanle, Founder and CEO of LiberNovo. "We built Maxis around how a bigger frame loads a chair across a full day. Berlin is the first place people can sit in all three versions and judge that for themselves."
Dynamic Ergonomics That Follows the Body
LiberNovo's Dynamic Ergonomics principle is that support should follow posture changes, work rhythm and the need to reset instead of asking the user to remain fixed. Across the lineup, lumbar depth can be adjusted to the individual back, while the recline range supports focused desk work through full relaxation. Responsive neck support sits against the cervical spine rather than pushing at the back of the skull, and its angle changes through recline to help keep the user's eyeline oriented toward the screen.
The Omni Pro expands this approach with motorized lumbar adjustment, OmniStretch and Active Airflow ventilation. The manually adjusted Omni SE provides a practical entry point to Dynamic Ergonomics. Both complement the Maxis Series in a lineup designed around different body types, preferences and working styles.
Supporting Special Olympics New York
LiberNovo is sponsoring Special Olympics New York with a donation of LiberNovo Omni ergonomic chairs to support office teams across three locations: the Albany headquarters, NYC office, and Long Island office.
Since 1968, Special Olympics has grown into a global movement creating opportunities for people with intellectual disabilities to participate, be respected, and be seen. The mission is built not just by athletes, but by an entire community working behind the scenes, coordinating events, managing volunteers, and connecting families to opportunity, often with little visibility of their own.
This sponsorship is LiberNovo's way of standing behind that work. Ergonomic design is not only about product performance. It is also about recognizing that the people who make inclusion possible deserve support too. As LiberNovo continues to expand its presence across international markets, sponsorships like this reflect a broader commitment: designing for the people who show up every day to build something bigger than themselves.
This marks an early step in a relationship LiberNovo hopes to grow, one rooted in shared values, not just brand visibility.
Try the Chairs in Berlin
Media, retail partners and visitors are invited to Hall 7, Stand 7.2a-105 to experience the Maxis Series and compare its three versions. Interviews, product demonstrations and business meetings can be booked at pr@libernovo.com.
About LiberNovo
LiberNovo builds dynamic ergonomic seating for people who sit for a living. Its chairs are designed around movement rather than fixed posture, helping support follow the body throughout the working day. Learn more at libernovo.com.
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LiberNovo to Showcase Dynamic Ergonomic Seating at IFA 2026 and Support Special Olympics New York
BERLIN, Sept. 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Tuya Smart (NYSE: TUYA; HKEX: 2391), a global AI cloud platform service provider, is showcasing its latest advances in physical AI at IFA 2026 under the theme "Hey Tuya."
Headlining the exhibit is the global debut of the new AI companion robot Doova, alongside the European debut of Tuya's AI Home, AI Energy, and AI Robot ecosystems, the Hey Tuya whole-space intelligent interaction experience, a full-stack Matter portfolio, and development tools designed to help turn AI hardware concepts into working products.
The showcase illustrates how Tuya is connecting cloud intelligence, devices, and developer tools to move AI beyond screens and into practical use across homes, energy systems, robotics, pet care, and personal assistance.
Doova Extends Physical AI to Home Companionship and Assistance
Following the debut of Aura, Tuya's AI companion robot for pets, Tuya is expanding its robotics portfolio with Doova, a home companion robot designed for independently living seniors to combine emotional companionship, everyday assistance, health-related reminders, and home monitoring. Doova is equipped with LDS LiDAR, sound source localization, and AI vision-based posture recognition algorithms.
Doova can respond to a simple voice request for help and navigate to the user's location, assess their posture, and, if necessary, place a video call to family members. Day to day, it can hold conversations, play audio and video, help users understand complex bills and letters, flag potential fraud risks, and guide them through the operation of smart appliances. It can also provide medication, weather, and schedule reminders, along with practical suggestions related to meals, gardening, and clothing. When users are away, Doova can patrol the home and generate a security report.
Together, these capabilities demonstrate how physical AI can combine contextual awareness with connected-device control to support more responsive and accessible living experiences.
AI Home, AI Robot, and AI Energy Make Their European Debut
At IFA 2026, Tuya is presenting its AI Home, AI Robot, and AI Energy application ecosystems together in Europe for the first time, combined with the Company's full-stack Matter solutions.
AI Home brings together a range of AI-powered devices, including an AI radar sleep speaker, AI printer, baby monitor, AI flower pot, and AI learning companion, extending AI capabilities into everyday scenarios such as home care, pet care, and plant care.
For example, the AI radar sleep speaker integrates millimeter-wave radar technology to accurately detect user activity and trigger adaptive smart home functions—such as automatically turning off the lights once the user falls asleep. It can also monitor heart rate, breathing, and snoring in real time to generate daily sleep analysis reports. In addition, built-in white noise, natural soundscapes, and meditation music help users relax and drift into sleep more easily.
The smart pet collar uses sensitive audio capture and AI-based emotion analysis to interpret changes in a pet's vocalizations and breathing. The AI radar speaker combines natural-language control of connected devices with contactless radar sensing for heart rate, breathing, snoring, and sleep quality, alongside functions such as alarms, focus timers, and white noise.
AI Robot products span pet care, interactive collectibles, and desktop tools, including Aura, Fuzozo, Walulu, an AI owl, and an AI robot dog. Aura combines behavioral analysis and sound recognition to interpret a pet's emotional state, while features such as laser play, treat dispensing, and simulated pet sounds support interactive companionship.
Tuya AI Energy connects balcony solar and storage, smart metering and distribution, and EV charging into a household energy network spanning generation, storage, measurement, management, and consumption. By integrating real-time and dynamic tariff data from more than 800 electricity providers and more than 1,000 dynamic tariff service providers across Europe, the system intelligently shifts household loads to help reduce overall energy costs, improving energy efficiency and reshaping the value proposition of home energy storage. The exhibit demonstrates how Tuya's energy management capabilities coordinate infrastructure and connected devices across the home.
A Full-Stack Matter Portfolio for Interoperable Products
Tuya is also showcasing an end-to-end Matter portfolio spanning chip modules and cloud services. The offering supports Matter over Wi-Fi, Matter over Thread, and Ethernet, as well as bridges from Zigbee, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi to Matter. It covers product categories including gateways, central control panels, lighting, plugs, sensors, curtain motors, thermostatic radiator valves, locks, and cameras.
Beyond standard Matter capabilities, Tuya layers on distinctive features — remote management, energy tracking, music-synced lighting — and integrates ecosystem tools like Amazon Frustration-Free Setup and the Google Matter API — allowing products to achieve cross-platform interoperability while preserving a differentiated user experience.
Hey Tuya Coordinates the Connected Home through Natural Language
Built on a multi-agent collaborative architecture, Hey Tuya is designed to coordinate services and devices across everyday scenarios rather than operate as a single-device assistant. Users can issue natural-language commands such as "Turn on the dining room lights" or "I'm leaving — activate monitoring," allowing multiple devices and scenes to respond together.
The experience centers on four capabilities: round-the-clock home security monitoring; energy analysis and personalized efficiency recommendations; natural-language control and automation across multiple devices; and personalized services that adapt to household routines and preferences.
Tuya plans to continue improving the reliability, response speed, and task execution of Hey Tuya, while exploring subscription and value-added services in areas such as energy optimization, pet care, and video understanding.
Developer Tools Shorten the Path from Concept to Working Hardware
Tuya's developer showcase presents a full technology stack for AI hardware development, where visitors can experience firsthand how ideas can be rapidly turned into functional AI applications that interact with and enhance daily life through the TuyaOpen open-source framework, Tuya Cobuilder, and Tuya AI Coding.
Tuya Cobuilder is an end-to-end Physical AI Builder designed for AI hardware developers. By simply describing an AI hardware concept in natural language, users can complete the entire development workflow in one place, ultimately enabling the application to run directly on real hardware. Tuya AI Coding, the Company's AI-native no-code application development platform, lets users turn ideas into AI-powered applications with a single prompt—enabling non-technical creators to become builders of AI-powered experiences.
By bringing AI applications, interoperable device infrastructure, and development tools into one ecosystem, Tuya aims to help its global AIoT developer ecosystem create practical AI products more efficiently. The Company will continue advancing AI Home, AI Energy, and AI Robot applications and collaborating with developers and partners to make intelligent living safer, more convenient, and more responsive to individual needs.
About Tuya Smart
Tuya Inc. (NYSE: TUYA; HKEX: 2391) is a leading global AI cloud platform service provider dedicated to bringing AI into everyday life. Through its TuyaOpen open-source development framework and universal AI Agent engines, including the AI Agent development platform, Tuya integrates multimodal AI capabilities to lower barriers for AI development, efficiently advancing the realization of AI-driven lifestyles and accelerating AI integration with the physical world. Tuya offers innovative physical AI solutions for smart devices, commercial applications, and industry developers through its cloud computing and spatial intelligence capabilities. It also provides a complete, open, and neutral global AIoT ecosystem.
As of June 30, 2026, the Tuya AI Developer Platform had over 2,092,000 registered AI developers from more than 200 countries and regions.
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Tuya Smart Brings Full-Stack AI into Everyday Life at IFA 2026
Tuya Smart Brings Full-Stack AI into Everyday Life at IFA 2026
