CES 2026: Follow live for the best, weirdest, most interesting tech as this robot and AI-heavy event wraps up
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CES 2026 is over and we’re out of here. You can still expect more articles in the coming days covering who we spoke to and what we saw at CES.
This was the year of “physical AI,” with companies showing off AI-centric consumer gadgets, robots and vehicles. To realize physical AI, you need computing power. And so it certainly made sense that the two keynotes with perhaps the most news came from Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and AMD CEO Lisa Su.
Robots, and specifically humanoid robots, were also central, including on the deal flow side. Hyundai, the majority owner of Boston Dynamics, had an exhibit full of robots, including the humanoid Atlas. (The line to enter the Hyundai exhibit was never absent, illustrating the interest in robots.)
Finally, as a transportation editor, I would be remiss not to comment on cars. CES is no longer an American and European auto show, a status it held for about a decade until last year. But that doesn’t mean there weren’t any vehicles present. Several Chinese automakers had exhibits, including Geely Holding, even though vehicles from the region cannot be sold in the United States.
There were plenty of transportation-related announcements and displays, even if they weren’t of the passenger car or truck type. Autonomous vehicle technology was everywhere: lidar companies, startups commercializing automated driving software, to industrial applications of the technology, and of course robotaxis.
Waymo and Zoox both had booths with their respective robotaxis – and the crowds were consistent and large. Will more robotaxi operators set up shop at the Las Vegas Convention Center next year? My guess is yes and I have a few ideas about which ones will be there.
Until next time.
