SINGAPORE, Nov. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- For the first time in its 20+ year history, digital travel platform Agoda has introduced a brand-new booking experience on its platform. First introduced as a limited test in September, Agoda's AI Assistant has now expanded to users across 21 markets, helping them discover, plan, and book travel in Agoda's mobile app.
Planning a single trip often means switching between AI chats, search engines, review sites, maps, and booking apps. Even after finding a recommendation they like, travelers are left with questions: Is the price real? Is it available for their dates? And how do they actually book it?
Agoda's AI Assistant is built to answer those questions. It combines conversational trip planning with Agoda's live inventory of more than 6 million accommodations, flights, tours, attractions, and travel ancillaries. Travelers can explore ideas, compare options, check prices and availability, and continue booking through Agoda without starting over at every step.
From "Where?" to "Booked!"
A traveler could ask Agoda's AI Assistant to help plan a five-day family trip to Osaka, compare neighborhoods, explore restaurants and attractions, and find available accommodations and flights for their dates. The assistant retains preferences and trip context as the plan develops.
Built for multi-step travel decisions, the AI assistant brings each part of the trip together on a trip planner canvas, where customers can sketch out their itinerary with upcoming bookings, places they want to visit, and plans still taking shape. Travelers can respond conversationally or tap through suggested choices while keeping their itinerary and previous decisions in view.
Early insights from the beta show that customers using Agoda's AI Assistant are more likely to book a "connected trip" that combines multiple types of travel products, such as hotels, flights, attraction tickets and tours. Agoda has also integrated web search into the assistant, so it can provide up-to-date information from the web alongside Agoda's live inventory.
The AI assistant's core conversational intelligence is currently powered by OpenAI models. For restaurants and points of interest, Agoda's AI Assistant uses Gemini with Google Maps Grounding to surface current information from Google Maps, including ratings, photos, opening hours, and locations.
Omri Morgenshtern, Chief Executive Officer at Agoda, said: "Travel planning today is fragmented. People jump between apps, tabs, messages, and spreadsheets just to organize a single trip. With Agoda's AI Assistant, we're changing that. We're giving travelers a smart companion that understands their preferences and trip context and adapts to their needs. Our goal is to remove the repetitive work from travel planning, so travelers can make inspired decisions with more confidence."
Agoda's mobile app provides access to more than 6 million holiday properties, over 130,000 flight routes, and more than 300,000 activities. Travelers can explore the full range of options at Agoda.com and find the best deals by downloading the Agoda app from the App Store or Google Play.
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Agoda's AI Assistant Brings Travel Planning and Booking into One Conversation
AI vision inspection platform recognized in Artificial Intelligence and Construction & Industrial Tech
SEOUL, South Korea, Nov. 10, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- A.I.Matics' AIM-T1, an AI vision inspection platform that helps electronics manufacturers identify defects and adapt inspections to new products, has been named a CES 2027 Innovation Awards Honoree in two categories: Artificial Intelligence and Construction & Industrial Tech.
AIM-T1 is designed for quality, process and manufacturing engineers working with products such as camera modules, semiconductor packages and printed circuit board assemblies. It addresses a recurring challenge in electronics production: maintaining consistent inspection as product designs and manufacturing requirements change.
Introducing a new product can require manufacturers to collect defect images, revise inspection criteria and adjust imaging equipment. These tasks can place additional demands on experienced inspectors and AI engineers, particularly in facilities with frequent product changeovers.
AIM-T1 combines modular imaging hardware with software-defined inspection to help teams adapt their inspection workflows on a common platform. The system uses reference samples of acceptable products to establish inspection criteria and identify deviations that may indicate defects.
The platform incorporates world model technology and in-context learning. Its optical system combines liquid lens technology with electronic focus stacking to capture images at multiple focal planes without mechanical Z-axis movement. Camera resolution, lens magnification, lighting and inspection configurations can be adjusted to suit different applications.
Operators can use a dedicated software interface to configure inspection criteria, review results and refine inspection models. The platform is designed to reduce reliance on specialized expertise for each product changeover by making inspection knowledge easier to reuse.
For electronics manufacturers reshoring production or adding regional capacity, transferring inspection expertise is an important part of bringing new facilities online. AIM-T1 is designed to make inspection workflows easier to reuse across products and production lines, helping quality and manufacturing teams establish inspection processes at new locations.
Organized by the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), the CES Innovation Awards program recognizes outstanding design and engineering in consumer technology products. CES 2027 will take place Jan. 6–9 in Las Vegas.
A.I.Matics plans to showcase AIM-T1 at CES 2027 and meet with manufacturers, automation equipment integrators and potential distribution partners. Booth and meeting details will be announced once confirmed.
For product information, visit https://vision.aimatics.ai/.
* The CES Innovation Awards are based upon descriptive materials submitted to the judges. CTA did not verify the accuracy of any submission or of any claims made and did not test the item to which the award was given.
About A.I.Matics
A.I.Matics is a South Korean Vision AI company and a subsidiary of Dreamtech. Established as an in-house venture at Hyundai Motor Company in 2000 and incorporated in 2003, the company built its expertise in automotive vision recognition by supplying lane departure warning systems to automakers. Today, it develops industry-specific AI solutions for transportation, logistics and manufacturing.
The company combines its proprietary AI engine, aimNet, with imaging technology and application software to help businesses identify risks, detect anomalies and make operational decisions. Its portfolio includes AI-powered driver safety cameras, the aid fleet management platform and AIM-T1, a software-defined AI vision inspection platform for advanced electronics manufacturing. The company also develops intelligent process and operations management solutions and AI chatbots for logistics call centers.
For more information, visit https://www.aimatics.ai/en.
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A.I.Matics' AIM-T1 Named CES Innovation Awards® 2027 Honoree in Two Categories
