Dave Taylor: What’s new and notable from the 2026 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas ...Saudi Arabia

This week’s 2026 Consumer Electronics Show sprawls across much of the bustling city of Las Vegas, occupying a staggering 2.6 million square feet. That’s 45 football fields with the latest from 4,100 exhibitors showcasing innovations in technology, electronics, appliances, vehicles, wearables and so much more. Attending the annual trade show is exhausting, but it’s also an amazing experience.

Each year, a few themes emerge as the harbingers of our tech future, and 2026 is no different. It’s no surprise that Artificial Intelligence is showing up everywhere, but robotics, particularly home robotics, digital health devices, mobility and autonomous transportation are all writ large across the exhibitor booths and private showrooms.​

It also wouldn’t be a CES without weird and nutty gadgets and gizmos, but those can also prove illuminating as they demonstrate the limits of tech. This year Roborock introduced the Saros Rover, a robot vacuum that can climb stairs to allow it to clean every floor in your home. Having it clomp up the stairs at 3 a.m. is the stuff of horror movies, but being able to push a button and have every floor in your multi-level home cleaned sounds like a dream come true.

LG Electronics CEO Liu Jae-cheol shared in his eye-popping presentation that LG believes we’re all dreaming about a future where interconnected robots and smart appliances cooperate to take the burden of chores away from us. The company introduced CLOiD, its home robot that can fold laundry, retrieve items from the fridge, place food in the oven, and much more. Ready for our homes? Not quite yet, but it’s getting closer.

Better, Faster, Stronger. Better?

Better, Faster, Stronger. Better?

Indeed, that might be the real theme of this year’s Consumer Electronics Show: “The Future Is Getting Closer.” It’s like “The Six Million Dollar Man”: We can rebuild it all, better, faster, stronger.

Most of the products introduced at the show are bigger, faster, smarter versions of what was shown last year. Bigger TVs? Definitely. Smarter appliances? Yep. More powerful health-monitoring wearables, display screens everywhere, laptops with flexible and resizable screens, autonomous cars, bikes and especially lawn mowers. Toys with brains to encourage childhood imagination or keep an older person company while watching a TV that’s no thicker than a pencil.

Fortunately, there are also industry groups pushing for greater individual privacy and data security, something of particular importance for health-monitoring devices.

And Oh! The health monitoring devices! They range from new Withings scales that can track hypertension to earbuds from Naox Technology that monitor your brain waves, to toilets from VOVO and Vivoo that analyze your urine stream and report on any health issues. There’s even a bedroom mirror from NuraLogix that uses transdermal imaging to assess your health. Women will also be intrigued by the smart menstrual pad Vivoo introduced, with built-in sensors to report health factors.

Televisins are … bigger

As one of the most important devices in a modern home, televisions have long since moved past being simple video playback devices. Massive corporations now battle to own the viewing experience, with Roku, Apple TV, Google TV, and Amazon Fire TV all competing with on-board smart systems from the TV manufacturers.

Wondering if AI is moving into that space? Of course, it is! In fact, for reasons that are somewhat inexplicable, Google announced that Google TV will be incorporating its powerful Gemini AI system. This will allow consumers to create and manipulate images directly from their TV.

Meanwhile, TV tech itself has jumped forward with some important technologies: Much improved short-throw projection systems and MicroRGB screens offering brighter images, deeper, more accurate colors. Also of note: embedded speakers that might just make that soundbar irrelevant. “Wallpaper TV” was a showcase item too, with manufacturers wowing people with 77-inch or bigger TVs that are no more than 9mm thick. That’s less than half an inch.

Appliances are getting really smart

Emerson introduced a line of voice-controlled home appliances that don’t require Wi-Fi connectivity or app control. You simply tell your Emerson air fryer “hey air fryer, cook French fries” and it knows temp, time and everything else required for optimal results.

Samsung’s Family Hub refrigerators, meanwhile, now have even more AI features. You can open the fridge door by voice! It also now has a Google Gemini AI-powered video system to track everything in the fridge, presumably helpful for a quick check while you’re at the market. They have screens on the doors so you can also use that for a family calendar, but it’s Cozily that introduced the bonkers 55-inch 4K touchscreen family calendar device. That’s a lot of screen for such a humble task!

Bosch introduced an Amazon Alexa+ powered espresso machine with “natural language barista control.” Arspura’s F1 Smart Range Hood lets you keep the air in your kitchen clean with its gesture-based control system.

Eufy was one of many companies introducing tech to make parenting easier. Its Bottle Washer S1 Pro can wash, sterilize, and dry up to eight baby bottles at once. Baby monitors have gone big. The Ahmi AI Early Learning Monitor includes HD video, sleep tracking, cry detection, lullabies, and transforms into an AI-powered “learning companion.” The Yukai Necoron Sleep Monitor tracks baby heart rate via an ankle sensor.

The world of PC computers

This year’s newly introduced computers have an emphasis on AI, with “AI-powered” becoming as common as “Intel” or “AMD” inside. “Copilot+” is Microsoft’s official designation, but it was the hardware that proved more interesting. My favorites are HP’s new EliteBoard G1a, a keyboard with the entire PC hidden inside, and the Lenovo’s Yoga Mini i, which offers up a mini-PC in a circular form factor. Think “big hockey puck.”

More startling, Lenovo’s ThinkBook Plus Gen 6 Rollable lets you expand the display by lifting it up: A second screen is hiding behind the first. Not ingenious enough? The company also showed off a prototype laptop with a screen that starts as a standard 16-inch display but can be manually extended horizontally to 21.5 inches and, all told, up to 23.8 inches.

Are we going in the right direction?

There’s so much more coming out of CES, ingenious devices that raise the possibility of us all having longer, happier and healthier lives. But the unspoken question that’s always hanging over the exhibit space is “do we really need this stuff?”

We’re already seeing the unexpected adverse consequences of omnipresent social media on mental health and of AI on academics and overall creativity. Is it so hard to look in a cookbook to figure out the optimal temperature for an air fryer that we need a talking appliance? Do our TVs need to be the size of a billboard in our living space? Do you want AI-powered sensors in your bathroom, analyzing your health data and, perhaps, secretly reporting its conclusions to your employer, the government or an insurance company?

Every year, CES is the very definition of irrational exuberance in the tech space, which is great because everything keeps evolving and — hopefully! — getting better. But it’s smart for us to differentiate between inventions that are truly going to help humanity and those that are just more stuff that means our current electronics are spontaneously obsolete.

And for CES 2027? Stay tuned, we’ll undoubtedly see even more amazing things, most of which will never end up in our homes.

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