HOUSTON, TX / ACCESS Newswire / May 20, 2026 / Ainos, Inc. (NASDAQ:AIMD)(NASDAQ:AIMDW) ("Ainos" or the "Company") today highlighted a new research update published by VASRO GmbH discussing AI Nose, the Company's AI-powered scent digitization and Smell AI platform, and ongoing commercialization progress across semiconductor manufacturing, robotics integration, and healthcare infrastructure markets. The report notes that the Company is advancing initiatives intended to support potential second half 2026 revenue generation.

The VASRO report characterizes Ainos' first quarter of 2026 as a "commercialization-build quarter." According to the report, Ainos continues progressing key initiatives involving approximately 1,400 AI Nose systems associated with a backend semiconductor manufacturing customer, separate front-end wafer fabrication qualification activities involving approximately 200 systems, and an additional 600-system partner commitment.

The report further notes that Ainos has expanded AI Nose deployment and validation activities across multiple operating environments, including backend semiconductor manufacturing, front-end wafer fabrication, robotics integration, and healthcare infrastructure applications.

In healthcare infrastructure environments, the report discusses initiatives involving power and electromechanical systems, gas and HVAC infrastructure, chemical-handling areas, and laboratory and MRI environments where real-time environmental monitoring and intelligent sensing may support operational awareness and infrastructure management.

The VASRO report also discusses broader semiconductor industry trends toward predictive maintenance, AI-driven process control, real-time environmental monitoring, pollution-control optimization, and increasingly sensor-rich AI-enabled manufacturing environments. According to the report, these trends are aligned with the types of AI-powered environmental sensing, anomaly detection, and machine-readable environmental intelligence capabilities AI Nose is designed to support across industrial settings.

"We believe industrial environments are increasingly adopting real-time sensing, predictive monitoring, and AI-driven environmental analytics," said Eddy Tsai, Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Ainos. "AI Nose is designed to convert volatile organic compound and scent signals into machine-readable Smell ID data, positioning Smell AI as a potential new AI perception layer across semiconductor manufacturing, robotics, healthcare infrastructure, and smart industrial environments. Our current focus remains on expanding deployments and advancing commercialization initiatives that we believe can support recurring revenue opportunities over time."

The full VASRO report is available here: https://vasro.de/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/VASRO-GmbH_Update-Report_Ainos-Inc_05192026_EN.pdf

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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VASRO Research Highlights Ainos AI Nose Commercialization Progress and Semiconductor Industry Shift Toward AI-Driven Environmental Intelligence